Title

'Peter the Great', c1710-1720

Caption

'Peter the Great',c1710-1720, (1890). Peter the Great (1672-1725) Russian Tsar who replaced traditional and medieval practices with more modern, scientific, Westernised and progressive ideas based on the Enlightenment. From "Cassell's Illustrated Universal History, Vol. IV - Modern History", by Edmund Ollier. [Cassell and Company, Limited, London, Paris and Melbourne, 1890]

Date

1710

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19F24_485

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

60,2Mb (2,1Mb) / 13,7in x 17,1in / 4106 x 5127 (300dpi)

Keywords

people male face man men arts politics country body bodies emperor book guy clothes royal dress hair innovation progress political location century Russia Russian moustache brown hair enlightenment literature royalty concept imperial B&W one person looking away cravat MONOCHROME Day 19th century black & white black and white B W Tsar czar 18th century Eighteenth Century nineteenth century history historic The Print Collector empire builder imperialism the body Peter I Peter the Great modern engraving portrait Unknown Cassells Peter the Peter I the Great Alexeiovich Edmund Romanov Co Cassell & Co Edmund Ollier Ollier Great Emperor Peter the Great Cassell and Company Ltd Cassell & Company Cassell & Cassell's Illustrated Universal History modern history engraving portrait