[ JanuaryUprising - allegory of the January Uprising "Poland is not lost yet"]. [l. 60s of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 9.5x5.3 cm on original base form. 10.5x5.7 cm, taken at the Dagron & Cie atelier in Paris.
Photograph from a 19th century press illustration, published just after the uprising. Queen Mary of Poland and participant in the uprising Anna Henryka Pustowójtówna. The Mother of God holds in her left hand a banner with the inscriptions: "Sebastopol, Magenta, Solferino", in her right hand a sword with which she breaks the shackles on the hands of Langiewicz's adjutant. In the background an insurgent battle scene. On the lower margin of the plate the inscription: "Poland is not yet lost. La Pologne n'est pas perdue", above it an inscription: "Poisot. Invt. 5 1863". Photo pasted on original cardboard backing. On the back an advertising vignette of the plant. Minor stains, overall good condition.
Anna Henryka Pustowojtówna (Pustowójtówna, Pustowoitoff), married Loewenhardtowa, alias Michał Smok, Michałek (1838 -1881) - daughter of a tsarist general and a Polish woman, educated at the Ladies' Institute in Puławy. Participant in patriotic manifestations, deported to Russia escaped to Moldova. In the uprising - adjutant to [Dionizego] Czachowski in the camp of [Marian] Langiewicz. Arrested with Langiewicz on the Austrian border, she left for Prague after a short stay in prison. After a few months in Galicia, she emigrated, living in Paris since 1866. (Biography after: "The January Uprising and Siberian Exiles. Catalog of photographs from the collection of the Historical Museum of the City of Warsaw," part 1 in ed. K. Lejko. War. 2004, p. 306).
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