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Print maker - Christian Gottfried Heinrich Geissler
Description
Landscape with snow-covered mountains in the distance and a soldier holding a bayonet in the foreground to right, c.1799-1801. Hand-coloured etching.
Inscription
Signed on plate: 'G Geissler del et fec'; lettered in top right corner: 'Vol 1 P 15'
Image Licence
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Image Credit
image © Trustees of the British Museum
Location
Georgiyevsk, North Caucasus, Russia
Country
Russia
Medium
Print
Tags
Category
Landscapes & Seascapes
TWW Comment
“From Georgiesk [Georgiyevsk] we had a magnificent view of the Caucasian mountains, in their whole extent from the Caspian to the Black Sea. The exact representation of this prospect in Plate 15” (extract from ‘Travel Through the Southern Provinces of the Russian Empire, in the Years 1793 and 1794 – Volume 1’, by Peter Simon Pallas, 1802, p340
