L'Artiste russe, revue des beaux-arts et de la littérature : [1846, Volume 2] / rédigée par une société d'artistes et d'hommes de lettres et publiée par J.Guillou

1846 · Saint-Pétersbourg : J. Guillou · 1 picture

L'Artiste russe was a French-language periodical of fine arts and literature, compiled by a society of artists and writers and published in Saint Petersburg by J. Guillou in 1846. This picture is an engraved double-headed eagle heraldic emblem with a crown above, shield, sceptre and orb, and it offers a designer a dense, symmetrical example of formal state crest engraving with fine hatched shading on wings and feathers.

Art -- Russia -- Periodicals · Russian literature -- Periodicals

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