Media Information

 
 
 
Collection:
Museum and the Online Archive of California
Creator Name:
Korukin (Korükin) (active 1803-1807), Russian, artist
Creator Role:
artist
Title:
[Cross-section view of cannon]
Date:
1807
Materials:
drawing on paper: ink and wash
Dimensions:
18.3 x 30.5 cm.
Current Location:
Bancroft Library.
Address:
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Object ID:
BANC PIC 1963.002:1028--ffALB
Subject:
- Arms & armaments
- Discovery & exploration
- Expeditions & surveys
- Russia
- Voyages to the Pacific
- Drawings
- Travel sketches
Heading:
Content/Description:
Notes:
Copper gun taken from the Japanese in 1807 on the 19th Kuril Island, Russia, by Lieutenant Chevostoff; inscription on top of cannon: "R. Co."
Heading:
Notes/Inscriptions:
Notes:
Supplied title. Handwritten (UC, in ink): [Bertezh mebnoi?] pushki, 1807; (LR, in ink): Korükin fec[it].; (UR, in ink): 7; (on verso): Langsdorff... Ref. note: Langsdorff -- German edition, Volume II, Plate 15; text, p. 257; not in English edition. Inscriptions in Russian.
Collection Description:
METS ID:
ark:/13030/tf3489p2k t

[Cross-section view of cannon]