format: 7,5x15cm in light passe-partout,lithography,paper,signed on the plate p.d.:JK[tied monogram].
Lithograph made in 1881 at Aureliusz Pruszyński's Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków.
Chumactivism - an occupation involving the overland transportation of goods, existing from the 15th to the mid-19th century in what is now Ukraine. The name of the occupation - "chumak" - comes from the wooden, airtight box (called "chum", according to another version it was called a spoon for measuring salt), in which salt and dried fish were transported. An alternative hypothesis suggests that the word may derive from the plague, which was spread by carters traveling from settlement to settlement[1]. Czumaks were also called "soleniks" in the 15th-16th centuries, and later also "kolomyks."
Aureliusz Pruszyński (9.09.1847 Kasinka Mała pov. Limanowa - 22.04.1904 Kraków) was a Kraków lithographer, owner of the highly regarded Aureliusz Pruszyński Artistic Lithography Workshop in Kraków established in 1873 at 17 Pijarska Street, from ca 1902 the owner of the workshop was his son Zenon Pruszyński (see SAP vol. 8 pp. 92-93). In the factory of A. Pruszyński, since the end of the 19th century, leading artists of Cracow reflected their graphic works in lithography (including posters), including the famous "Teka Melpomena".
