Late 18th-Century Damask Phelonion with Pearl-Embroidered…
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Late 18th-Century Damask Phelonion with Pearl-Embroidered Yoke, Rostov Museum — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1911 (Rostov, Volga River Region).
Subjects: volga river region, rostov, vestments.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Felonʹ vtoroĭ poloviny XVIII v. iz drevneĭ materīi kamki, s oplechʹem, rasshitym zhemchugom po malinovomu barkhatu. V Rostovskom muzeie. Rostov Velikīĭ.
