Skotnikoff, Jegor

[Illustrations for Rechberg, Peuples de Russie]. [Paris: 1812]



18 aquatint etchings, folio (19 x 14 5/8 in.; 482 x 372 mm), all in proof states before the letter and colored by a contemporary hand, manuscript captions and signatures in Russian and French below the images, all loose in a wrapper; some slight marginal thumbing. Tan half-morocco drop-box.

Czar Paul I at Czarskoje Seno Palace (purchased by Gilhofer & Ranschburg from the Soviet Government in 1930 — purchased from William H. Schab in 1962

Colas 2491; Lipperheide 1348

some slight marginal thumbing
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A superb set of hand-colored aquatint costume etchings, all in proofs before the letter, of which seven are unrecorded.

These are illustrations for the two-volume folio Peuples de Russie by Count Charles de Rechberg (see Lot 274) as published by Colas in Paris, 1812-1813. The etcher is Jegor Skotnikoff (1782–1843), working after the designs of Matvei Ivanovich Korneyev (1774–c. 1825). The plates present here which did not appear in the published work and are not listed by Rovinski (1895), are the final seven: Femme Turcque, Un Albénien, Un Albanois, Capitaine des Janissaires, Janissaire, Janissaire en habits de Cérémonie, Officier des Janissaires.