Hand-colored woodblock print showing a hussar and a private of the Russian army, circa 1810. The The hussar is dressed in a light blue dolman jacket decorated with gold braid on the chest, and a tall red hat decorated with a hackle, he holds a pistol in his right hand; the private wears a dark blue jacket, tall black hat, a rucksack and is armed with a rifle with a bayonet. Printed title in the upper right corner reads: 'Roshia. Yoropa' [Russia. Europe]. The print is possibly based on a Russian original brought by the embassy of Nikolai Rezanov (1804)
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Small upright folio. Bowen Island, BC, The Wayfarer's Bookshop, 2016
Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection., Brown University Library
Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)
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