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Voyage Pittoresque aux Etats-Unis de l'Amerique. Par Paul Svignine. En 1811, 1812, et 1813. (Title Page from Svinin's Portfolio of Watercolors)

Pavel Petrovich Svinin

ca. 1813

Voyage Pittoresque aux Etats-Unis de l'Amerique. Par Paul Svignine. En 1811, 1812, et 1813. (Title Page from Svinin's Portfolio of Watercolors) by Pavel Petrovich Svinin

Medium

Black ink on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

9 1/4 x 15 13/16 in. (23.5 x 40.2 cm)

Classification

Drawing

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Rogers Fund, 1942

Accession Number

42.95.53

About the Artist

Pavel Petrovich Svinin · 1787–1839

Pavel Petrovich Svinin (1787–1839) was a Russian diplomat, writer, and amateur artist whose visual record of early American life constitutes one of the most vivid and historically valuable documentary accounts of the United States in the early nineteenth century. Born in Russia in 1787, Svinin received a broad education and pursued a career in the Russian foreign service, which brought him to the ...

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