[CabinetPHOTOGRAPHY - officer in uniform - portrait photograph, posed]. [l. 1880s]. Photograph form. 18.8x9.3 cm on original backing form. 20.5x9.8 cm, by Walery Rzewuski in Kraków.
Officer captured in 3/4 figure, in uniform and coat, cap, gloves and Austrian infantry saber in hands. In the lower margin gilt print: "Walery Rzewuski Kraków Wesoła_Dom własny.". Photo pasted on original cardboard backing with gold border. On the back, pencil inscription: "Siedlecki". Stains in places, good condition overall.
W. Rzewuski (1837-1888) - photographer from Cracow, social activist, one of the pioneers of Polish photography. Studied at the Technical Institute in Cracow and from 1857-1858 at the Vienna Polytechnic. From 1859 he worked as a photographer, first outdoors, then in a studio in a rented room at 83 Grodzka St. In 1861 he opened an establishment at 6 Krupnicza St., then at 29 Kopernika St. Between 1864 and 1867 he put up a house at 27b Kolejowa St., where on November 1, 1867 he opened his renowned establishment with a modern laboratory atelier. Prominent citizen and councilor of the city of Cracow. Known for his ethnographic photography, landscapes of the Tatra Mountains, he created so-called "living pictures". Author of portraits, including insurgents of 1863 and the first album photos of actors.
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