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    Image number: RS.10602
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    A Russian sledge

    Date
    ca. 1825
    Creator
    Paul Gauci (British) , Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    44752
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 125mm
    width (print): 210mm
    Subject
    Content object
    Description
    Street scene showing a horse-drawn sledge used in Russia.

    Inscribed below: ‘delt. by Gauci Junr.. Printed by N.Chater & Co. 33 Fleet St. Vol.1 Page 195.’

    Plate 3 from Travels through Russia, Siberia, Poland...by James Holman vol.1 (London, 1825).

    The author of the accompanying text, James Holman described several journeys by sledge: at this point in his book from Moscow to Novogorad.

    James Holman, known to his contemporaries as ‘The Blind Traveller’, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1826.
    Associated place
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       > Asia
          > Russian Federation
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