Russia--[Karelin, Andrey, attributed to]

4 albumen prints, joined to form a panorama (113 x 1080mm.), each mounted on card and joined by linen, minor wear to images, pin-hole in two corners, a little spotting or light dust-soiling

Formerly in the collection of the Austrian Geographical Society

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A rare panorama of Nizhny-Novgorod, showing the vast expanse of the city stretching along the river Volga, which by the mid-nineteenth century had firmly established itself as the trade capital of the Russian Empire. Andrey Karelin (1837-1906), a graduate of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, lived in Nizhny Novgorod and worked as a professional art and landscape photographer.