This small devotional print combines different techniques to recreate the effect of a painted icon encased in an oklad (an embossed metal cover protecting most of the icon while exposing for veneration the hands and faces of the figures depicted). It would have been produced as an affordable alternative to the genuine article which, by the late nineteenth century in Russia, had become an elaborate product of the silversmith's art, often combined with rather indifferent painting. The subject, the Virgin of Kykkos, is an authentically Orthodox one of Cypriot origin and there is a famous 1668 version by the Russian painter Simon Ushakov. However, details such as the naturalistic faces, the crowns worn by the Virgin and Child, and the representation of the Trinity are western touches typical of the later period.