Title: "A villager from the vicinity of Lviv. Drawing by W. Grabowski. (6057)"
Author: Edward Nicz according to Wojciech Grabowski
Item description:
Notes: Preserved entire sheet. Figure without article - figure was not accompanied by text in the issue
About the author: - Edward Nicz (1851-1916) Warsaw wood engraver active from 1869-1900, associated with "Tygodnik Ilustrowanym", as well as with "Kłosy" and "Wędrowiec" (art director), an outstanding, award-winning and prolific xylographer; see extensive biography in SAP vol. 6 pp. 50-51. - Wojciech Grabowski (15.04.1850 Zwierzyniec (Cracow) - 2.06.1885 Lviv) respected and popular cartoonist, illustrator and painter. In 1866-1871 he studied at the School of Fine Arts (SSP) in Cracow, and in 1871-1872 in Munich (and possibly Rome). He began working as a magazine illustrator in Vienna in 1872 and returned to Poland that year, living in Lviv, Przemyśl and Krakow, among other places. Initially he preferred fantasy themes in his compositions, and then ethnographic themes known to him from his wanderings in Galician villages and towns, where he portrayed the life of the Galician people; from 1875 he worked with "Kłosy" and later also with "Biesiada Literacka" and "Tygodnik Ilustrowany"; see SAP vol. 2 pp. 450-451, supra Polski słownik biograficzny (PSB) vol. 8 pp. 516
Literature: Grajewski 1972 item 4824 (misstates title of engraving)
Additional information:
Condition of preservation:
Item in very nice condition
Grading of the state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no defects, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very insignificant 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
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