[PORTRAITPHOTOGRAPH - unidentified late 19th century male - posed photograph]. [not after 1887]. Photograph form. 14x10 cm on original backing form. 16.6x11 cm, by Piotr Mieczkowski in Lviv.
The portrait is taken up to his knees, in profile, standing supporting both hands on the back of an armchair. Gilded inscription on the lower margin of the backing: "Mieczkowski in Lviv". On the reverse a gilded advertising vignette of the establishment. Photo glued on original cardboard backing. Nearly perfect condition.
P. Mieczkowski - in 1872-1887 the owner of a studio at 5 Panska St. in Lviv. His atelier used infrequent decoration of photographs by gilding the slanted frame and gilded inscriptions. The next owner of the establishment at 5 Panska Street was Dawid Mazur.
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