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Watercolours from Picturesque United States of America, 1811, 1812, 1813, being a memoir on Paul Svinin, Russian diplomatic officer, artist, and author, containing copious excerpts from his account of his travels in America, with fifty-two reproductions of water colors in his own sketch-book.
Title
[Watercolours from Picturesque United States of America, 1811, 1812, 1813, being a memoir on Paul Svinin, Russian diplomatic officer, artist, and author, containing copious excerpts from his account of his travels in America, with fifty-two reproductions of water colors in his own sketch-book.]
Publication
[New York : W. E. Rudge, 1930]
Physical Description
1 online resource (5 images).
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Notes
Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
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Summary
These reproductions of watercolours have been selected from a book by Pavel Svinin (1787-1839), a Russian diplomatic officer, artist and author. They depict scenes of life amongst free blacks in Philadelphia, where Svinin was stationed at the Russian consulate between 1811 and 1813.
Variant and related titles
Slavery, abolition & social justice.
Format
Books / Online
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October 24, 2023
Series
Slavery, abolition & social justice
Subjects
Genre/Form
Engravings
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