[MAJER Joseph - portrait photograph - shot in card de visite format]. [2nd half of the 19th century]. Photograph form....

[MAJER Joseph - portrait photograph - shot in card de visite format]. [2nd half of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 9x5.5 cm on original backing form. 10,7x6 cm, made in Walery Rzewuski's workshop in Cracow.
Portrayed in 3/4 figure, wearing toga, standing supporting hands on book block. On the lower margin of the photograph an imprint: "W. Rzewuski", on the lower margin of the undercut pencil inscription: "Dr. Majer". Photo pasted on original cardboard backing. On the back, pencil inscription: "Majer Prof.". Good condition. See item above.
J. Majer (1808-1899) - physician, naturalist, anthropologist, encyclopedist, professor and rector of the Jagiellonian University, president of the Cracow Scientific Society, first president of the Academy of Learning in Cracow, honorary member of the Society of the Polish National Museum in Rapperswil since 1890. (Wikipedia).
W. Rzewuski (1837-1888) - Cracow photographer, social activist, one of the pioneers of Polish photography. He 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.