Beschreibung:

[IVANOV, Piotr S. (c.1791-?), IVANOV, Ivan A. (1779-1848), after SADOVNIKOV, Vasilii Semenovich (1800-1879)]. [ Panorama Nevskogo Prospekta ]. [Panorama of Nevsky Prospect]. [St Petersburg: A. Prévost, 1835 and 1830]. Finely-produced views of early 19 th -century St Petersburg. These handsome scrolls portray a panorama of Nevsky Prospect, accompanied by captions in French and Russian highlighting its topographical landmarks. As if during a stroll, the viewer gazes over a long row of building façades enlivened by shops (including a bookseller’s premises), horse-drawn coaches, passers-by, shopkeepers and other figures. The views were drawn after watercolours by V.S. Sadovnikov, rated as a master of landscape and perspective painting. The first scroll (‘The Left, Sunny Side’), lithographed by Piotr S. Ivanov, shows the north side of the Prospect, from Palace Square to the Anichkov Bridge, with sights including the Armenian, Catholic and Dutch churches, and the Kazansky Bridge. The second scroll (‘The Right, Shady Side’), lithographed by Ivan A. Ivanov, portrays the south side of the street, from St Isaac’s Square to the Office of the Imperial Cabinet, passing by the palace of Countess Stroganov, the Church of Our Lady of Kazan, the Public Library and Anichkov Palace. Reviewers praised this publishing feat as a ‘masterly lithographic scroll’ and ‘the best likeness of our beautiful Nevsky Prospekt’; it sold successfully among the middle classes, who purchased the scrolls as gifts or decorations. WorldCat records only one set of two outside Russia, and two copies of the second scroll only. RBH records no other copies being offered at auction. I. Kotel’nikova, Panorama of Nevsky Prospekt , pp. 8, 32. (1: 8407 x 200mm, 2: 7220 x 200mm). Both lithographed, mounted on linen, subdivided into 16 and 14 segments of c.500mm respectively, glued on verso (edges a trifle dusty, few scattered spots). In cylindrical cases, marbled paper.