Prospekt i niz po Nevie riekie mezhdu zimnim eia Imperatorskago Velichestva domom i Akademieiu Nauk. Vüe des bords de la Neva en descendant la riviere entre le Palais d’hyver de Sa Majesté Imperiale & les batimens de l’Academie des Sciences.

Location

Country: Other
City: other locations abroad

Mikhail Ivanovich Makhaev was one of Russia’s most celebrated painters and engravers, and in 1760 produced another album of prints of Kuskovo, made in a similar elegant and refined style. His drawings of St Petersburg were painstakingly observed and drawn, but are also valuable visual documents that reveal to a modern audience, the confidence, style and beauty of St Petersburg at the moment of its historic anniversary, and which are complement the city’s profile in 2003, its 300th anniversary. Makhaev’s work can be found today in the collections of the Historical Museum, Moscow, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.

Places

Russia, St Petersburg

Subjects

rowing boat, topography, townscape/cityscape, river bank, river, coat of arms, house, church, spire, sailboat

Materials & Techniques

engraving

Artist

Mikhail Ivanovitch Makhaev (1716 - 1770)
Giuseppe Valeriani (1690 - 1761)
Ivan Sokolov (1717 - 1757)
Efim Vinogradov

Title

Prospekt i niz po Nevie riekie mezhdu zimnim eia Imperatorskago Velichestva domom i Akademieiu Nauk. Vüe des bords de la Neva en descendant la riviere entre le Palais d’hyver de Sa Majesté Imperiale & les batimens de l’Academie des Sciences.

Date

1753

Medium

Engraving

Acquisition

Purchased from Frank T Sabin, June 1975

Provenance

Folio Ex Libris Count Von Thun-Hohenstein-Thun

GAC number

11991