Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great [RUSSIAN TEXT]

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Engraving from the Time of Peter the Great (Гравюра Петровского Времени). M. Alexeeva. RUSSIAN TEXT. The book is the first to comprehensively cover the issues of the formation and development of engraving art in the time of Peter the Great (1700s). The engravings that have survived to this day are striking works of art and valuable documents on the history of Russia, in particular, on the history of military affairs, shipbuilding, and urban development. The book covers the organization of engraving, and explores in detail the workshops in Moscow and St. Petersburg. It covers the work of the first Russian professional engravers - A. and I. Zubov, A. Rostovtsev, V. Kipriyanov and others.

USSR (Leningrad): Iskusstvo. 203 pages. The book reproduces about 170 engravings on coated enamel paper. Bottom corners bumped, one with a small fray. Pages clean, no ownership marks. 1 copy only.