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KER-PORTER, Robert.
Travelling sketches in Russia and Sweden during the years 1805, 1806, 1807, 1808, 2 volumes
Sir Robert Ker Porter (1777-1842), a traveller, diplomat, and painter, went to Russia in 1805 but had to leave in 1806 due to an unhappy love affair with a Russian princess. He travelled through Scandinavia and other European countries for the next two years. The present work reflects his experiences, discussing his journey to Russia, life in St Petersburg, the Russian nobility, peasantry and trades class, the Russian Orthodox Church, military events in Europe, the countryside in Finland and Sweden, King Gustavus Vasa of whom he etched a portrait, and more. The illustrations include buildings in St Petersburg and Stockholm, Russian tradesmen and their wives, cossacks, officers, soldiers, peasants, Bashkirs, Kirgizians, Swedish and Finnish peasants and country scenes, and the highly characteristic illustrations of the inside of a Russian postal office and Swedish women doing laundry in an ice-hole in a frozen river. The beautiful plates are from drawings the author made during his travels in Russia, Finland, and Sweden, engraved by Stadler.
- Published
- London: for John Stockdale, 1813.
- References
- Bobins I 214; Tooley 382; Abbet Travel vol 1 13?
- Plates
- 28
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: for John Stockdale, 1813.
- Ref
- 297
Second ed. 290 x 240 mm (4to) xi 303pp; viii 296pp. illustrated with 41 plates (3 folding plates 2 of which are coloured and the other tinted; 26 full-page coloured plates, 11 tinted plates, and one engraving). The majority of the plates are Russian, with those of Sweden in the second volume, reflecting Porter's overwhelming interest in Russia. Brown hardback rexine covers. Rebound. Title to spine in gilt on (peeling) black label. Marbled edges. Some darkening to pages as well as occasional marks. Hinges to volume one weakened. Offsetting from the tinted plates and the text of a few pages. Overall in good condition without dustwrapper. All plates are present but not necessarily in the order of the content. Coloured plates in order: Volume 1. 1. Monks of St Basil. 2. Nuns of St Basil. 3. A Hackney Sledge. 4. Russian Boors in their Winter Sledge. 5. A Russian Tradesman. 6. [title trimmed - illegible] 7. A Gentleman in his Winter Walking Dress. 8. A Russian Nurse. 9. A Regular Cossac. 10. An Uralsky Cossac. 11. An Officer of the Donsky Cossacs. 12. A Soldier of the Imperial Foot Guards 13. An Officer of the Imperial Foot Guards. 14. The inside of a Russian Post-House (folding plate with tear). 15. A Russian Trademan's Wife in her Gala Dress. 16. A Russian Trademan's Wife in her Summer Dress. 17. An Archimandrite in his Ordinary Habit. 18. A Russian Peasant in her Summer Dress. 19. A Russian Peasant in his Summer Dress. 20. A Bohemian or Gypsey. Volume 2. 21. The Chief of the Bashkirs. 22. A Bashkir Trooper. 23. Kirghises. 24. A Kalmuc Horseman. 25. A Peasant of Finland in his Winter Dress. 26. [Title trimmed - illegible]. 27. A Dalecarlian Female Peasant. 28. Swedish washerwomen (folding plate).
