Lot 33
33
After Alexander Orlovsky
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After Alexander Orlovsky

A Chief of the Kurds

Details
After Alexander Orlovsky
A Chief of the Kurds
lithograph
27½ x 19¼ in. (69.9 x 48.9 cm.)
Published by R. Ackermann, London, 1824; and three other lithographs after the same artist: A Don Cossack, A Cossack of the Ural Mountains and A Persian Grandee on Horseback; and a porcelain dessert plate depicting A Don Cossack (5)
Provenance
A Persian Grandee on Horseback; The Chief of the Kurds:
Marlborough Rare Books, London.
Acquired from the above in 1987.

A Don Cossack; A Cossack of the Ural Mountains:
Collection of Colonel Roman Umiastowski.
Acquired from the above in 1968.
Literature
A Don Cossack; A Cossack of the Ural Mountains:
Exhibition catalogue, Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832): A Selection of his Work from the Collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska Dietrich and the late Albert George Dietrich, Hanover, 1973, p. 9, nos. 27 & 28.
Exhibited
A Don Cossack; A Cossack of the Ural Mountains:
Hanover, The Hopkins Centre Art Galleries Dartmouth College, Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832): A Selection of his Work from the Collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska Dietrich and the late Albert George Dietrich, 1973, nos. 27 & 28.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

A Don Cossack; A Cossack of the Ural Mountains:

See V. Vereschagin, Russian Caricature, St Petersburg, 1913, vol. III, p. 4, nos. 104 & 106.

For other versions of A Don Cossack and A Cossack of the Ural Mountains see The Alexandre Sementchenkoff Collection, Christie's, London, 22 October 1987, lot 593.

For further information on this artist and the collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska please see lot 31.

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