Monument of Peter the Grea — engraving

'Monument of Peter the Great, St.Petersburg" engraved by A.H.Payne after a picture by H. Bydgoszoz'

In the engraving, the Monument to Peter I, located on Senate Square in St. Petersburg, in the background is the building of the Senate and Synod, to the right is the building of the Imperial Academy of Arts on Vasilievsky Island and the Column in the garden of the Academy of Arts, installed in honor of its 50th anniversary.

The monument to Peter I (Bronze Horseman), created in 1768–1778, the work of the French sculptor Etienne Maurice Falconet, was unveiled on Senate Square in St. Petersburg on August 7 (18), 1782. The ten-meter monument, made of bronze and granite, is dedicated to the first Russian Emperor Peter I. The name “Bronze Horseman” was assigned to the monument after the publication of the poem of the same name by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1833.

Technique, Material: Steel engraving / Paper
Date, Publisher: Brain & Payne, 12 Paternoster Row, London, "Payne's Universum, or, Pictorial World", 1845–1847.
Date: published in Payne's Universum, London, 1845.
Size: 27,3 X 20,4 cm.