Traveling across North America, 1812-1813 : watercolors by the Russian diplomat / Pavel Svinin ; [translated from the Russian by Kathleen Carroll].

Main entry:

Svinʹin, Pavel Petrovich, 1788-1839.

Title & Author:

Traveling across North America, 1812-1813 : watercolors by the Russian diplomat / Pavel Svinin ; [translated from the Russian by Kathleen Carroll].

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams ; St. Petersburg : Izokombinat "Khudizhnik RSFSR", 1992.

Description:

191 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 18 x 22 cm

Notes:
"Sixty-eight watercolors from the collection of the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-184).
Codfishing (Plate 65).
Translated from the Russian.

Summary:

This book is a facsimile of a sketchbook filled with drawings and watercolors made by the Russian diplomat Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787-1839) during a stay in America in 1811-13, the years he served in the Russian consulate in Philadelphia. These charming watercolor landscapes, many of them identifiable even though much of America has changed over the last two centuries, are accompanied by the Russian artist's own accounts of the exotic, fairy-tale land he found the United States to be. Among the sites he recorded so deftly are Niagara Falls; George Washington's home, Mount Vernon; views of New York, Philadelphia, Washington, and Richmond; and many other subjects, such as steamboats, Indians, sea, river, and townscapes, plantations, and mountainous terrain. Traveling across North America illustrates in color the 68 original scenes, which are now in the collection of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Complementing the illustrations is an intriguing introduction by Evgenia Nikolaevna Petrova, an expert in nineteenth introduction by Evgenia Nikolaevna Petrova, an expert in nineteenth-century Russian art and currently a Deputy Director at the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, where she has worked since 1966. Also included in the book are appropriate quotes and descriptions from Svinin's own travel books, and biographical notes on the people mentioned in the text. -- from dust cover.

ISBN:

0810938553
9780810938557

Subject:

Svinʹin, Pavel Petrovich, 1788-1839 Travel North America.
Svinʹin, Pavel Petrovich, 1788-1839
Watercolor painting, Russian 19th century.
Russians Travel United States History 19th century.
Aquarelle russe 19e siècle.
Russians Travel
Travel
Watercolor painting, Russian
United States Description and travel.
Canada Description and travel.
United States Pictorial works.
Canada Pictorial works.
États-Unis Descriptions et voyages.
Canada Descriptions et voyages.
Canada
North America
United States
Russians Travel History 19th century United States
Svinʹin, Pavel Petrovich Travel North America

Form/genre:

History
Pictorial works

Added entries:

Carroll, Kathleen, translator.
Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325569
Call No.: 325569
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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