Bird's-eye view of St. Petersburg / Estes & Lauriat, Boston. – Antique Map Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Few images capture their era like this antique engraving of Bird's-eye view of St. Petersburg / Estes & Lauriat, Boston.. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Bird's-eye view of St. Petersburg / Estes & Lauriat, Boston.
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Peter the Great founded St. Petersburg in 1703 on the marshy delta of the Neva River, and the city served as Russia's capital until 1918. This 1876 engraving shows it from an elevated, bird's-eye vantage, a format popular in the 1870s because it let viewers take in the whole layout of canals, bridges, and rooftops at once. The print was issued by Estes & Lauriat, a Boston firm, so it was made for an American audience and offers a view of a distant European capital as seen from across the Atlantic.
| Created / published | 1876 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
| Genre | Bird's-eye view prints 1870-1880.Engravings 1870-1880. |
| Subjects | Saint Petersburg (Russia)--1870-1880. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,637 × 3,742 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222313 |
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