Asia

15x9 cm

RUSSIAN EMPIRE
BY T. STARLING
Miniature steel engraving by Thomas Starling (1796-1850) published in his Family Cabinet Atlas by Mr. Bull, Holles Street, London 1830. The announcement of its publication appeared in The Atheneum Journal of Literature, Science and Fine Arts March 6 1830, and on publication, was praised by the Journal as "a work of no small brilliancy...minuteness of form has not impaired the clearness of delineation...is highly creditable to the artist, Mr Starling".
 

Original hand colour depicting Northern Europe and Siberia. With original engraved index page.