MARSH URAL’SKIKH KAZAKOV CHEREZ BOGEMIYU V IYULE 1799 [March of the Ural Cossacks through Bohemia in July 1799]

Lithograph, hand-coloured. Signed lower left and dated 1800. Inscribed in German along the lower edge. Plate 49 x 67.5 cm; sheet 58 x 96.4 cm; frame 70.7 x 109.1 cm. In a wooden frame. Large tears along the left margin. The lithograph is after the painting ‘Ural Cossacks’ by C. Hess, made in 1799 during A.V. Suvorov’s Swiss campaign. It shows the Ural Cossack Host led by its last elected ataman, later Major General David Martemyanovich Borodin (1760-1830). Carl Adolph Heinrich Hess (1769-1849) was a German painter, draughtsman, lithographer and engraver of battle and animal scenes.