Sir Robert Ker Porter (Scottish 1777-1842)

Sir Robert Ker Porter (Scottish 1777-1842)
An album containing 41 sketches of French and Russian figures Comprising A Peasant near Châtillon; A Maid Servant at Châtillon; A French Curate; A Grenadier of Moravia; A Bourgeois of Châtillon; A Salute from a National Sentinel; A Garde Nationale, Châtillon-sur-Seine; A Russian Tradesman; An Artelchick; A Russian Coachman; A Russian Peasant in his Winter Dress; A Russian Butcher Crying his Meat; A Coachman Going to the Neva for Water; A Russian Tradesman's Wife in her Winter Dress; A Russian Nurse; A Single Horse Sledge; A Traveller and Kibitka; A Zbitenschick; A Grey Police Soldier; A Russian Waiter; An Archbishop in his Robes; A Priest in his Summer Dress; A Russian Monk; A Boodishnick; A Russian Grenadier; An Officer of the Horse Guards; A Russian Peasant in his Summer Dress; Descending an Ice Hill; A Quasnick; A Cossack; Ice Cutters on the Neva; A Russian Peasant in her Summer Dress; A Finnish Peasant; A Green Police Soldier; A Russian Tradesman's Wife in her Winter Dress; A Postillon; A Soldier of the Imperial Guard; A Merchant's Wife of Moscow; A Merchant of Moscow; A Soldier of the Imperial Guard; A Russian Peasant Playing upon the Balalaika
Each signed with initials RKP, numbered and inscribed with title, and some dated
Watercolour, and pen and black ink, 1814-1816, bound in green gilt-tooled leather
20.1 x 26.2cm; 8 x 10¼in

Provenance:
From the collection of Sir Raymond Smith KBE (1917-2002) and Lady Smith (1918-1996)