Important Russian Art

1 December 2021

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Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander III, French Edition

194.

Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander III, French Edition .

Folio (660 x 510mm.)
7,000–9,000 GBP

Chromolithographic title, frontispiece, two portraits and 23 colored plates after Simakov, Makovskii, Sokolov, Savinskii , Karazin, Polenov, Kramskoi, Vereshchagin, Makarov, Bogdanov, Grigor'ev, Aleksandrovskii, Surikov and Samokish, decorative initials and illustrations in the text, some chromolithographic, text printed in black, blue and red, original brown leather - backed brown cloth, upper cover richly gilt with title and imperial arms within scrolling foliate borders, lower cover stamped in blind, spine with imperial regalia in gilt, white moiré-style endpapers.

St Petersburg, Expedition for the Preparation of State Papers, 1883.

Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander III, French Edition
Coronation Album of Emperor Alexander III, French Edition

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