Title:
[View of Aldan River on the road from Ochotsk to Yakutsk, Russia]
Creator/Contributor:
Langsdorff, Georg Heinrich von (1773-), German, artist (artist)
Date:
[between 1803 and 1807]
Identifier:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1029--ffALB
Format:
drawing on paper: wash
21.8 x 28.4 cm.
Content/Description:
Canoe with four people in foreground; river and its shore in background; islands at left.
Notes/Inscriptions:
Supplied title. Handwritten (LC, in ink): Ansicht einer Gegend des Aldauflusses, auf dem Wege von Ochotsk nach Iakutsk; (LR,
in ink): Dr. Langsdorff ad nat. del.; (UR, in ink): Tab. XV; (on verso): Langsdorff... Langsdorff--German ed., Vol. II, Plate
16; text, p. 310; not in English edition. Inscriptions in German.
Subjects:
Discovery & exploration;
Expeditions & surveys;
Rivers;
Russia;
Voyages to the Pacific;
Waterfronts
Genre/Format:
Landscapes;
Travel sketches;
Wash drawings