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ArcheoBiblioBase: Archives in Russia: H-200Last update of repository: 17 March 2020Gosudarstvennyi muzei istorii Sankt-Peterburga (GMI SPb)Fond zhivopisi i grafiki istorii goroda [Fond of Painting and Graphic Art of the History of the City] Website: https://www.spbmuseum.ru/funds/54/ Holdings Total: ca. 43,000 units; early 18th c.–1917 The fond holds various kinds of iconographic material on the history of St. Petersburg from the founding of the city until 1917. There is a collection of drawings mainly devoted to views and landscapes of St. Petersburg done by such artists as F.G. Bagants, the brothers Albert and Alexandre Benois (Benua), Luigi Premazzi, V. Sadovnikov, Joseph Charlemagne (I.I. Sharleman'), and M. Vorob'ev. Of particular value is the technical drawing collection containing the work of such famous architects as Auguste Ricard de Monferrand, A.A. Ol' (Ohl), Giacomo Quarenghi (over 200 units), Bartolomeo Rastrelli (over 50 projects), Antonio Rinaldi, Carlo (K.I.) Rossi, A.I. Shtakenshneider (Stakenschneider), A.N. Voronikhin, and A. Zakharov. There are engravings of portraits, genre scenes, and typical city dwellers. The lithograph collection contains the early lithograph editions of the Society for Encouragement of Art (Obshchestvo pooshchreniia khudozhestv), albums by Adolph Pluchart (A.A. Pliushar) showing views of St. Petersburg and genre scenes, publications by the Fel'ten (Feldten) and the Daziaro publishers, panoramic views of Nevskii Prospekt based on the drawings of V. Sadovnikov, and pictures of the Ekaterinhof Pleasure Gardens. There is also a collection of manuscript plans and maps of the city (18th–20th cc.). |
