Description 'Scenes in the Ural', a scrapbook of watercolours, lithographs, drawings and letters compiled by Roderick Impey MURCHISON, relating to his travels in Russia, 1840-1871. The majority of the lithographs, and some of the drawings on which the lithographs are based, were published in: Murchison, R I, 'The geology of Russia in Europe and the Ural Mountains', London: John Murray (1845). There are also a small number of lithographs which appear to be have been taken from a Russian source.
CustodialHistory Purchased by J W Wells, 1950, repaired and backed by him.
Provenance Presented by Ellen Wells, October 1994.