Date Note | 1809 watermark, Strangways in Russia |
Description | Manuscript, watercolour sections of the Sukhoboisk, Samilovsky and Froloosky copper mines, north of Orenburg, Russia, by unknown Russian author, copied from Benedikt Franz Johann von Hermann's collection, [1809-1820]. The captions, in English written over pencil notes in a Russian hand, are probably by William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways. Sectioned on linen. |
Administrative History | Same artist as LDGSL/995/5. Strangways, through whom Greenough acquired the sections, was a diplomat who was posted to St Petersburg between December 1816-June 1820. |