MILITARY UNIFORMS -- [A collection of original drawings and hand-coloured prints of Russian military costumes, ca. 18th-and 19th-century.]
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MILITARY UNIFORMS -- [A collection of original drawings and hand-coloured prints of Russian military costumes, ca. 18th-and 19th-century.]

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MILITARY UNIFORMS -- [A collection of original drawings and hand-coloured prints of Russian military costumes, ca. 18th-and 19th-century.]

59 pen, ink and body-colour drawings, many with manuscript captions, and 30 engravings, all but one hand-coloured, mounted on 41 leaves in two albums with marbled boards by J. Hess of Geneva (binder's ticket) Provenance: Wendel (bookplates).

A collection of drawings and engravings of uniformed Russian officers, artillery, cavalry and infantry from various regions and divisions -- including Cossacks, Tartars, Ukrainian guards, etc., and including a drawing of Peter I on horseback. One of the albums includes a manuscript title-page introducing the work as Russische Militärkostüme und Volkstrachten by Gottlieb Wagner von Konolfingen, suggesting a possible source or attribution for some of the drawings. (2)
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