 A picturesque representation of the manners, customs, and amusements of the Russians, in one hundred coloured plates; with an accurate explanation of each plate in English and French..  Englische Miscellen - Page 218edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Library of Congress - 1928 - 392 pages
...Three titles received •on priced exchange from the New York Public Library merit special mention : "A picturesque representation of the manners, customs, and amusements of the Russians, in one hundred coloured plates, with .an accurate explanation of each plate in English and French ...... | |
 | Library of Congress - 1928 - 392 pages
...do. Three titles received on priced exchange from the New York Public Library merit special mention: "A picturesque representation of the manners, customs, and amusements of the Russians, in one hundred coloured plates, with an accurate explanation of each plate in English and French ...... | |
 | Andrew Wachtel - 1998 - 188 pages
...frequently depicted Shrovetide fairs, and an illustration from one of these— John Augustus Atkinson's A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians (London, 1803)— contains many of the same items that just over a century later would grace the opening... | |
 | Cynthia H. Whittaker, Edward Kasinec, Robert H. Davis - 2003 - 236 pages
...England, Atkinson published several albums devoted to Russia. Of particular interest is the three-volume A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians, prepared with Walker in the early iSoos.The work contains 100 sheets engraved in soft lacquer with... | |
 | Jennifer Speake - 2003 - 566 pages
...sledging, attract a large and varied clientele of fun-seekers (from JA Atkinson and James Walker's A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians, 1 804). Courtesy of the Travellers Club, London; Bridgeman Art Library, agent. quently, travel to the... | |
 | Lou Taylor - 2004 - 356 pages
...civilised peasant and farmer and the uncouth behaviour of the uncivilised, pagan occidental Other. Thus in A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians, of 1803-4, Wallachian shepherds are described as 'suspicious and vengeful [who] hate every other nation... | |
 | Philip Longworth - 2006 - 886 pages
...Over-land to China (London, 1706) Bashkirs. Soft-ground etching from John Atkinson and James Walker, A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians (London, 1803) An Estonian girl An Ostiak ermine-hunter A Chukchi in armour with his family A Mordvinian... | |
 | John Herbert Slater, William Roberta, F. Partridge - 1903 - 832 pages
...grandfather of the reputed writer. — Catalogue^ (/?) Other Properties. 2117 Atkinson and Walker. A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs and Amusements of the Russians, with Descriptions in English and French, 3 vol., 100 coloured plates, half morocco, Bulmer, 1803-4, folio... | |
 | Dictionary - 1885 - 472 pages
...England in 1801, and first exhibited here at the Academy in 1802. In 180-3-4 he prepared the plates for ' A Picturesque Representation of the Manners, Customs, and Amusements of the Russians,' which seems not to have actually appeared till 1812, when it was published by Buhner in 3 folio volumes.... | |
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