ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS) and JAMES WALKER A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians, 3 vol.
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ATKINSON (JOHN AUGUSTUS) and JAMES WALKER
A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians, 3 vol., half-titles, engraved portrait of Alexander I, 98 hand-coloured aquatint plates only (of 100), captions in English and French, one plate loose with tears to margin, lacking 5 leaves of text, contemporary half morocco, worn with loss to spines, 2 covers detached [Abbey, Travel 223; Colas 171; Lipperheide 1343; Tooley 72], folio, W. Bulmer, for the Proprietors, 1803-1804
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Footnotes

  • Abbey notes that Atkinson's plates "show the spontaneity and spirit possible when the artist is his own engraver... the colouring is skilfully done, in soft washes". Many of the views depict leisure activities and include the racecourse, swings, boxing, wrestling, toboganning on ice hills, skittles, dancing, the fairground and public festivals. The plates are watermarked "J.W. Whatman, 1823".

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