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Title: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: toronto_dean on Sunday 23 June 19 19:44 BST (UK)

Hi,

Can someone please help me to translate the handwriting on the back of a picture frame into English? Or let me know what language is it? Please see the attached picture.

Thank you!

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: bbart on Sunday 23 June 19 20:04 BST (UK)

My first impression is that of an address for a Mme (madame) PuoXXXX in Macao (Macau?), but so far no luck mapping any of the other words...

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: bevj on Sunday 23 June 19 20:29 BST (UK)

Some of the letters look like Russian script to me.
Bev

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: CarolA3 on Monday 24 June 19 05:33 BST (UK)

I studied Russian decades ago and can't remember much, but this is written in the Cyrillic alphabet and the last word is Sevastopol (initial letter corrected).  The word starting with 'X' is a transliteration of Holst, I think.

Carol

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: solidrock on Monday 24 June 19 07:27 BST (UK)

If the last word is Cevastopol then it maybe Sevastopol a largest city on the Crimean Peninsula and a major Black Sea port.  ;D

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: CarolA3 on Monday 24 June 19 07:49 BST (UK)

Sorry, my mistake :-[

Of course it's 'S' in our alphabet - told you it'd been a long time :D

Carol

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: CarolA3 on Monday 24 June 19 08:14 BST (UK)

The word that looks like Macau is 'maslo' which means oil - does this frame hold an oil painting?

Carol

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 24 June 19 08:24 BST (UK)

My brother has a Russian girlfriend
She says the name is hard to read but here is her best guess


Cape Fiolent
Canvas
Oil
Artist Saushkina E.M.
2016
Sebastopol

As a reward, she would like to see an image of the painting  :)


Мыс Фиолент
Холст
Масло
Художн.[ик]
Саушкина Е. М.
Севастополь

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: CarolA3 on Monday 24 June 19 08:33 BST (UK)

Great stuff!  I couldn't get any further with it :)

Carol

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: toronto_dean on Monday 24 June 19 15:57 BST (UK)

Thank you all for the help! Much appreciated!

I don't have a picture of the painting now, but I'll upload one later :).

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: bbart on Monday 24 June 19 17:09 BST (UK)

Quote from: toronto_dean on Monday 24 June 19 15:57 BST (UK)

I don't have a picture of the painting now, but I'll upload one later :).

Yes please!  And wow, was I ever far off the mark!  ::)

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: toronto_dean on Tuesday 25 June 19 02:14 BST (UK)

Thanks again everyone! Here is a photo of the painting. The photo doesn't look as nice as the painting itself (have to make it small). I like the colors.

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: mckha489 on Tuesday 25 June 19 02:25 BST (UK)

Thank you Dean. It looks very peaceful. 

Title: Re: help reading picture frame handwriting
Post by: bbart on Tuesday 25 June 19 02:27 BST (UK)

Very nice, thank you!

If you google Cape Fiolent and look through the images, you can see how the artist must have climbed down a fair ways for that vantage point.  Lovely!