WARSAW - Twardzicki. Portrait of an elderly woman, cardboard, ca. 1870; photo b/w, in oval, under photo signature embossed and printed W. TWARDZICKI in WARSAW, on verso decorative advertisement of photo establishment; st. bdb.; photo dimensions ca. 55x80 mm.
Walerian Twardzicki (1838-1907) photographer, author of portraits of social types. Initially worked in Lublin, as co-owner of atelier Twardzicki & Grochowski. Since 1866 he photographed in Warsaw, where he ran photographic establishments successively in the wing of the Blue (Zamoyski) Palace at Żabia Street in Warsaw, at 12 Niecała Street, at 46 Nowy Świat Street.
