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Petersburg Panorama II — engraving


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Petersburg Panorama II. Series of four engravings, panoramic views of St. Petersburg from Vasilievsky Island, from the observatory of the Academy of Sciences. Engraved after J. A. Atkinson.

 

The inscription at the top of the image is “Panorama of St. Petersburg N. II” and the note under the image is “Hotel of the French Embassy”, “Hermitage”, “Great Nerva”, “Imperial Winter Palace”, “Imperial General Staff”. , “Place of the Blessing of Water”, “Steel engraving by L. Zechmaier in Vienna”

On the engraving, St. Petersburg Panorama. View from Vasilievsky Island of the Admiralty, the Imperial Winter Palace, the Hermitage and the Neva River, with boats, rafts and ships.

 

Technique, Material: Steel engraving / Paper
Artist: John Augustus Atkinson, Engraver: Leopold Zechmayer
Date: Vienna, c.1830.
Size: sheet 18.6 x 28.3 cm, images: 12.6 x 22.6 cm.

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