Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Porter, Robert Ker, Sir, 1777-1842
Title:
Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808 / by Robert Ker Porter ; in two volumes.
Alternate Title(s):
Voyages and travels. Russia & Sweden
Edition:
The second edition, with forty-one plates.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1813.

[London] : Strahan and Preston, Printers-Street, London, [1813]
Physical Description:
2 volumes : illustrations ; 31 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
D965 .P67 1813+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Aquatints by Joseph Constantine Stadler; after Sir Robert Ker Porter.

An earlier edition was published by Richard Phillips in 1809.

Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 383

Cat. Russica, No. P1036

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary gilt- and blind-tooled calf. Armorial bookplates: C. Robert Bignold; Abraham Wildey Robarts.
Subject Terms:
Russia -- Description and travel. | Sweden -- Description and travel. | Voyages and travels. | Costume -- Russia. | Costume -- Sweden. | Bignold, C. Robert -- Bookplate. | Robarts, Abraham Wilden -- Bookplate.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1813. | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1813. | Armorial bookplates (Provenance)
Contributors:
Stadler, Joseph Constantine, engraver. | Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814, publisher. | Strahan and Preston, printer.