Souvenir of Czestochowa. [Czestochowa? 1896?]. 16d podł., leporello, p. 8. ovr. cart....

Souvenir of Czestochowa. [Czestochowa? 1896?]. 16d podł., leporello, p. 8. ovr. card. decor.
Spine repaired, otherwise good condition. Gilt title on front cover. Black and white reproduction of a large panorama of Jerusalem at the time of Christ presented in a specially erected Częstochowa rotunda. The building was founded by Henryk Lgocki, a Cracow lawyer and owner of the Panorama at Dynasy in Warsaw. He also commissioned and financed the panorama of ancient Jerusalem with all the major events surrounding the crucifixion of Christ. The large-format work (10x94 m!), titled "Panorama of the Crucifixion of Christ the Lord (Golgotha)," was created in Munich as a copy of a painting by Josef Krieger and Karl Frosch. Its authors were Polish painters Stanislaw Radziejowski, Antoni Piotrowski and Ludwik Boller. The panorama was presented for the first time in 1896. The fate of the painting is unknown. Perhaps it was exhibited in Kiev in 1901, perhaps again in Czestochowa in 1906. The rotunda was demolished in 1935 due to its poor technical condition.