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MORNAY.

Set of Eight Hand-Coloured Plates of Sledges.

Set of Eight Hand-Coloured Plates of Sledges.

Stock Code 90852

Howlett and Brimmer, and Dove for Edward Orme, London, [ca. 1825].

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Russian carriages and sleighs and their occupants, all dressed in contemporary costume and boldly coloured.

A Picture of St. Petersburgh, represented in a Collection of Twenty interesting Views of the City, the Sledges, and the People. Taken on the Spot, at the twelve different Months of the Year: and accompanied with an Historical and Descriptive Account.

Eight hand-coloured aquatint plates engraved by by Clark and Dubourgh after Mornay, captions in English and French, all with watermark J Whatman 1820/1821/1825

Abbey Travel 226 (first edition 1815); Martin Hardie, 138; Prideaux 345; Tooley (1954), 355.

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