Title: "View of the square in front of Marywil and the main city hall in Warsaw."
Item description:
Notes: Preserved entire sheet along with a fragment of a longer text from a series in several issues of the magazine. The table of contents of the semiannual does not give the author of the drawing according to which the engraving was made, and does not give the author of the text. Quite a rare engraving.
City Hall on Theater Square in Jablonowski Palace built 1773-1785, rebuilt 1817-1819 as a city hall, after the fire of 1863 rebuilt in Neo-Renaissance style 1864-1869, in the 20th century expanded, after damage during World War II demolished 1952, in 1995-1997 reconstructed the former facade of the palace
Literature: Grajewski 1972 item 24541
Additional information:
Condition:
Item in very nice condition, very slight fold of the card going through the upper left corner of the composition (card after conservation), in the typical way the text on the other side of the card is slightly punctured
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no flaws, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
The evaluation of the state of preservation and some other elements of the description have some subjectivity, but we make them with our best knowledge and the greatest possible reliability, if in doubt, please refer to the scan of the object or contact us.
