PICTURE

Creator(s): Unknown

Currently in storage

About this object

The picture is done all over in colored beads pasted to the background. The view is of the Red Square and the church of St. basil in the central background. To the left are various buildings before GUM was built and to the right is a tower of the Kremlin,. In the foreground is the circular structure where the condemned were executed. (lobnoe Mesta, place of skull) In the foreground are various fruit and vegetable peddlers.

Object name:

PICTURE

Made from:

Beads

Made in:

Moscow, Russia

Date made:

1848

Size:

34.3 x 41.9 cm (13 1/2 x 16 1/2 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

46.15

Class:

BEADWORK

Signature marks:

DATE; MONOGRAM upper left hand corner: 1848; upper right corner: TO

Credit line:

Gift of Madame Augusto Rosso, 1966