Village of Alushta (Vue du village tatar d'Alouchta) (Still Image)

Village of Alushta (Vue du village tatar d'Alouchta)

Panorama of Alushta on Crimea's southern coast. In the foreground, a shepherd herds goats with the help of a few dogs. Crimean mountains (the high peak is Demirdzhi) and the Black Sea, complete with a vessel with furled sails, can be seen in the background.

23 October 1837

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Anatolii Demidov, Album du Voyage dans la Russie méridionale et la Crimée, par la Hongrie, La Valachie et la Moldavie>, ed. Ernest Bourdin (Paris, 1838)

1837

Image courtesy of the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library

drawing from nature; lithograph

John Hay Library, Brown University

56 cm