Description | Manuscript, watercolour sections of copper mines, two near Orenburg and three in Poland, by unknown Russian author, copied from Benedikt Franz Johann von Hermann's collection, [1816-1820]. The captions are in Russian, with some translations probably by William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways. Sectioned on linen. |
Administrative History | Same artist as LDGSL/995/7. Strangways, through whom Greenough acquired the sections, was a diplomat who was posted to St Petersburg between December 1816-June 1820. |