• Unknown (photographer)

Exterior view of the Voskresenskie Iverskie Gates (Resurrection Gates) of Kitay-gorod, Moscow

ca. 1883

Albumen silver print

comp.: 40.8 x 31.4 cm secondary support: 64.2 x 46.9 cm sheet: 49.4 x 38.1 cm

PH1987:0472

• exterior view

imprinted - in black ink, on the print below the image, l.l.: "MOSKVA. / VOSKRESENSKIIA VOROTA I IVERSKAYA CHASOVNYA." [MOSCOW. / VOSKRESENSKIE GATES AND IVERSKAYA CHAPEL.]; and l.r.: "MOSCOU. / PORTE DE LA RESURRECTION ET CHAPELLE St VIERCE [sic] D'IVERSKY." imprinted and numbered - in black ink, on the print below the image, l.c.: "No. du negatif 24799."; and with the royal seal comprised of a two-headed eagle with a crown and "Russkaya Fotografiia / v Moskve. / na Volkhonke dom Kir'iakova." [Russian Photography / in Moscow. / in Volkhonka Kir'iakov's house.] imprinted - in black ink, on the secondary support, b.: "Photographie Russe à Moscou." imprinted - in the image, c.l.: with shop signs including "[sign cut off by edge of image]IA TORGOVLIA / IA CHELNOKOVA." [SALES / BY IA CHELNOKOV]

Moscow; Russia (Federation);

• architecture

• city gates