Ancient Gospel Book: Cover
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Ancient Gospel Book: Cover — an early colour photograph by Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, taken in 1909 (Volga, Baltic Waterway, Volga-Baltic Waterway).
Subjects: volga-baltic waterway, religious books.
Made with his three-exposure colour-separation method on a single glass plate; Prokudin-Gorskii Collection, Library of Congress.
Original Russian caption: Starinnoe Evangelīe. Kryshka. [Rossiĭskaia imperiia].
