lithograph, paper; 22 x 14 cm (light frame);signed on the plate p. d.: "M. Pociecha";
The work was created in 1881, as an aid to Zagreb, which had been destroyed by an earthquake a year earlier, by Krakow artists. The lithograph was made in 1881 at Aureliusz Pruszyński's Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków.
Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała pov. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Kraków) was a Kraków lithographer, owner of the esteemed Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków established in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street, from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński, since the end of the 19th century, leading artists of Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena".
