Volunteers leave Grodno to join the insurgent army - from a sketch by M.K. "L'Illustration. Journal Universel" No. 1053 of May 2, 1863.
Stencil woodcut, card size 52x37 cm. Signed on the woodblock J. Worms and Best. Cosson Smee(ton).
One of the finest woodcuts of the period with the theme of the January Uprising, made by Jules Worms (1832-1924), painter, illustrator, draughtsman, winner of many awards for artists (author of the composition) and woodcutters working in Paris in the company Best, Cosson, Smeeton & Cie. According to Piotr Pawel Gach, author of the article "The January Uprising in the pages of theParisian weekly "L'Illustration. Journal Universel", published in the periodical "Niepodległość i Pamiąć" No. 19, 2003, p. 28, the author of the source sketch for the composition was Michal Elwiro Andriolli.
