Saturday, November 3, 2012

Mining the Archives - Mir Iskusstva 1904 No4 - Miniature Paintings

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Mir iskusstva magazine 1904 (issue 4).
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Photographs of Miniature Paintings
from an exhibition of historical artworks in St. Petersburg

as published in Mir Iskusstva magazine 1904 (issue 4)


The magazine scanned by Doria: the multi-institutional repository maintained by 
The National Library of Finland






































D.I. Tchitcherine (or Chicherin).
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Samuel von Cocceji.
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An unknown female in a Diana pose.
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Catherine the Great. Collection of Princess Yusupov.
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Three golden snuffboxes with diamonds, and miniatures of
an unknown person, Catherine the Great, and King Gustav III of Sweden.
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Catherine the Great and Elizaveta Petrovna (Elizabeth of Russia).
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Princess Daria Volkonsky, Prince Grigori Volkonsky.
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Snuffbox decorated with a portrait of Count Vladimir Orlov,
miniature portraits of Duke Ernst Biron Coarland, Prince A Vyazemskaya
and a Knight of St. George.
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Snuffbox decorated with a portrait of the Countess Vladimir Orlov,
then King of Poland Stanislas Poniatowski, Mlle Plestcheef,
and Count Gregory Tchernychev mourning his father.
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Miniature portrait of Mlle Vadkovsky (née Countess Tchernychev).
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Miniature portraits of Countess Kurakina by Ritt,
an unknown by Borovikovski and Prince P.A. Zupkov by Chamisso.
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Prince Grigory Orlov (by Eriksen), Princess T. Kurakina (by Ritt)
and an unknown lady at the end of the XVIII century.
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Miniature portrait of D. Hodovptskago by D. Chodowiecki.
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