RUSSIA-MUSCOVY-OATH-RELIGION-MUSCOVITES [After DE MANDELSLO, 1719]

Serment des Moscovites.

Copperplate engraving/etching on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 23,5 x 36 cm. Image size: 16,5 x 13 cm.

From: ‘Les Voyages du sieur Albert de Mandelslo’ published by Pierre van der Aa in Leiden, The Netherlands 1719. Ref: Hollstein LIII 1999, 201. Van der Krogt KAN IVA, 44:29.

Made by an anonymous engraver after Albert de Mandelslo. Johan Albrecht de Mandelslo (1616–1644) was a seventeenth-century German adventurer, who wrote about his travels through Persia and India.

Condition: Very good, given age. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

Keywords: RUSSIA-MUSCOVY-OATH-RELIGION-MUSCOVITES

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