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Johann Wilhelm
Lürsenius

Draftsman. Worked in the first half. The EIGHTEENTH century Together with the artists, I.-H. Berchem and J. D. Decker participated in an expedition under the leadership of I. G. Gmelin and G. F. Miller in the Urals and Siberia (1733-39). The expedition was made of ethnographic, Zoological, Botanical sketches, as well as "cut," "the Avenue of the cities" the way of the expedition from Novgorod through Tver-Kazan to the Urals, from Siberia. In 1735 after the departure of Berkana to Kamchatka, drawing "prospectuses" cities passed Lucenius. His are the types of Tyumen, Nev (1741), Turinsk. Verkhoturye (1742). With these drawings, along with other city views taken in 1764, A. I., Sveceny, masters of the engraving chamber was made engravings. They entered the "Meeting of the Russian and Siberian cities", etc. albums of the late EIGHTEENTH – early NINETEENTH century.

Lit.: Materials for the history of the Imperial Academy of Sciences. SPb., 1895. Vol. 8. S. 483-484, 643.; Alekseeva M. A. a Meeting of the Russian and Siberian cities. A series of engravings of the EIGHTEENTH century // the State Russian Museum. L., 1964. No. 8. P. 65-74.; Fedorov-Davydov A. Russian landscape of the EIGHTEENTH - early NINETEENTH century Cambridge: 1953. P. 284.; Prints and the book in EIGHTEENTH century Russia: exhibition catalogue / comp. N. V. Kazarinova. Perm: PGHG, 1975. P. 17-18.

(Source: encyclopedia of "Perm Krai", Kazarinova N. V.)

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