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Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)
Lot 39 PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF DR R. KRYSTYNA TOLCZYNSKA DIETRICH

Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)

Persian on horseback

Closed26 November 2012

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Alexander Orlovsky (1777-1832)
Persian on horseback
embossed with coat-of-arms 'Orla' (lower right)
lithograph
26½ x 20¼ in. (67.3 x 51.4 cm.)
Printed in 1820; and two other lithographs, one by the same artist: Chief of the Kurds; embossed with coat-of-arms 'Orla' (lower right); one after the artist: Caucasian rider (3)

Chief of the Kurds:
Collection of Stanislaw Jordanowski, New York.
Acquired from the above in the 1980s.

Specialist note

See D. A. Rovinsky, Concise Dictionary of Russian Graphic Artists, St Petersburg, 1895, p. 488, nos. 43 & 44.

For further information on this artist and the collection of Dr R. Krystyna Tolczynska please see lot 31.