"Myshi kota pogrebaiut (graviura na dereve)" [The Mice Are Burying the Cat]
Featured on PDR in the collection D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)
The origins of the Russian prints called lubki (singular lubok) appear to stretch back to the 1500s, when the art of block printing was introduced to Russia from Eastern Asia, around the same time German Hanseatic merchants brought the first printed books to Moscow. As Adela Roatcap remarks:
Also appearing in the collection…
The Mice Are Burying the Cat
Artist
Date
1881
From
D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki
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