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ALBUM - RUSSIA AND NATURAL HISTORY An late eighteenth century album, including a series of good botanical watercolours (20), a fine watercolour view of Moscow, 40 hand-coloured costume plates from Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, and some later material including 2 watercolours of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament, miscellaneous lithographs and engravings, [c.1790-1800, and later] image 1
ALBUM - RUSSIA AND NATURAL HISTORY An late eighteenth century album, including a series of good botanical watercolours (20), a fine watercolour view of Moscow, 40 hand-coloured costume plates from Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, and some later material including 2 watercolours of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament, miscellaneous lithographs and engravings, [c.1790-1800, and later] image 2
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ALBUM - RUSSIA AND NATURAL HISTORY
An late eighteenth century album, including a series of good botanical watercolours (20), a fine watercolour view of Moscow, 40 hand-coloured costume plates from Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, and some later material including 2 watercolours of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament, miscellaneous lithographs and engravings, [c.1790-1800, and later]

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ALBUM - RUSSIA AND NATURAL HISTORY

An late eighteenth century album, including a series of good botanical watercolours (20), a fine watercolour view of Moscow, 40 hand-coloured costume plates from Description de toutes les nations de l'empire de Russie by Johann Gottlieb Georgi, and some later material including 2 watercolours of the destruction of the Houses of Parliament, miscellaneous lithographs and engravings, the watercolours mostly captioned, and some dated between 1792 and 1798 (mostly approximately 340 x 235mm.; the Moscow watercolour 223 x 355mm.), mostly tipped-in at corners, contemporary red half morocco gilt, folio (362 x 265mm.), [c.1790-1800, and later]

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Includes a fine pen, ink and watercolour view of Red Square, Moscow seen from a roof top viewpoint. Several of the botanical watercolours (subjects including Peonies, Veronica, Cherry Blossom, Iris, Erica, "A native of N. America", American cowslip, Parrot and Macaw tulips), were executed at Stamford Hill, North London, dated between 1792 and 1798, the Oleandaer signed "R. Cowie delt".

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