Russian manner of punishing ROBBERS along Volga River c1777.

by Middleton, Charles Theodore

Rufsian manner of punishing ROBBERS who infest the RIVER-WOLGA.

Fine antique print. Copperplate engraving for Middleton’s Complete System of Geography, which included ethnography and architecture as well as topography, published in London circa 1777-8 by Charles Theodore Middleton. This strongly delineated copperplate engraving has further detail on the riverbank at left where another bully turned victim is being unclothed and hand tied behind his back.

Page measures 23 x 36cm (9 x 14 inches). Measurement to intaglio impression 19 x 24cm (7.5 x 9.5 inches).