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Title: [Cross-section view of cannon]
Creator: Korukin (Korükin) (active 1803-1807), Russian, artist
Date Created and/or Issued: 1807
Publication Information: Bancroft Library
Contributing Institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection: Honeyman (Robert B., Jr.) - Collection of Early Californian and Western American Pictorial Material
Rights Information: Please contact the contributing institution for more information regarding the copyright status of this object.
Description: Copper gun taken from the Japanese in 1807 on the 19th Kuril Island, Russia, by Lieutenant Chevostoff; inscription on top of cannon: "R. Co."
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.
Type: image
Format: Drawing on paper: ink and wash 18.3 x 30.5 cm.
Identifier: http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf3489p2kt
BANC PIC 1963.002:1028--ffALB
Subject: Arms & armaments
Discovery & exploration
Expeditions & surveys
Russia
Voyages to the Pacific

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