A portrait of Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin has been engraved by a member of the Imperial Academy of Arts, T. Wright, from a photograph (a posthumous plaster cast) of his face, and will be completed by the end of this month of March.

This portrait was intended for the publication of Pushkin’s works that he was preparing and was created in the last year of his life. However, after his death, it remained unpublished, and the few prints that were made at that time are extremely rare. Through a fortunate turn of events, an original plate was found, perfectly preserved, and prints for the current edition were created from it at the Academy of Arts, without any changes to the image.

From the drawn portraits included in the album, the image of Alexander Pushkin made in 1837 in sepia by Wright is particularly noteworthy. This is the last portrait of the poet made in the year he died, and it looks very similar to the original of the famous engraving created by the artist. It is likely that this portrait was meant to be an exact replica and stands out for its exceptional delicacy and subtlety.