MENU

Creator(s): Viktor Mikhailovich Vasnetsov (Artist)

On view in: Icon Room

About this object

Menu is printed in various colors and gold with traditional Russian decorative motifs. Dinner was given in 1888 in the reign of Alexander III to celebrate the Order of St. George the martyr founded by Catherine the Great in 1769. At the top is St. George slaying the dragon. Below and on the left side is the cipher of the double headed imperial black eagle. To right is actual menu in Russian.

Object name:

MENU

Made from:

Chromolithograph

Made in:

Russia

Date made:

1888

Size:

36.5 x 24 cm (14 3/8 x 9 7/16 in.)

Detailed information for this item

Catalog number:

55.23

Class:

PRINT

Signature marks:

INSCRIPTION

Credit line:

Bequest of Marjorie Merriweather Post, 1973