View of the Nave in the Cave Church (Still Image)

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Title:

View of the Nave in the Cave Church

Description:

Chromolithograph of a "cave church" at Mangup. Churches and monasteries were often built into the sides of cliffs in the Crimean mountains.

Creator:

Drawn from nature by M. Vebel'
Chromolithography by Semechkin
Printed by V. Darleng

Source:

Aleksei Sergeevich Uvarov, Sobranie kart i risunkov k izledovaniam o drevnostiakh IUzhnnoi Rossii i beregov CHernago Moria (1851)

Date:

1848-1851

Rights:

Digital image courtesy of the New York Public Library

Coverage:

POINT(3763464.29732969 5557883.88991366)

Original Format:

1 of 69 plates

Physical Dimensions:

71 cm

Repository:

Slavic and East European Collections, The New York Public Library; New York Public Library Digital Collections (go to the record)

Collection:

Uvarov's Antiquities

Citation

Drawn from nature by M. Vebel' Chromolithography by SemechkinPrinted by V. Darleng, “View of the Nave in the Cave Church,” Beautiful Spaces, accessed October 26, 2026, https://beautifulspaces.omeka.fas.harvard.edu/item/658.