Tone lithographies.

Odesa, lithographic workshop of P. Franzow and L. Nitche.

15 sheets; 190 x 250.

Inv. G 2.

Album in the owner's dark green leather binding of the mid-nineteenth century. The upper cover has a gold-embossed floral ornament with an inscription in the centre: Album. The leaf sections are gilt. Inscriptions on the flyleaf: E. M. Petrocokino (mid-nineteenth century); От Екатерины Корнелиевны Петрококино. 24/XII 1923 г.

The album comes from the family of a nineteenth-century Greek merchant in Odesa, collector Yevstratii Mykhailovych Petrokokino (1842-1904). After his death, the collection of paintings and drawings passed to his wife, the artist Kateryna Korneliivna Petrokokino, born Bodarevska (1857-1939). In 1925, K. K. Petrokokino emigrated to France. In 1923, she donated an album of lithographies by F. Gross to Odesa City Public Library (now Odesa National Scientific Library).

Tone lithography. 107x198.

Near the lower edge of the image, on the left: F. Gross; below the image, on the left: Imp. de Franzow et Nitsche; on the right: Dess. d'après nat. et lith. par F. Gross; in the centre: Vue d'Odesa prise près de la douane.