[PORTRAIT PHOTOGRAPH - landowner in Polish costume - shot in card de visite format]. [not after 1870]....

[PortraitPHOTOGRAPHY - a landowner in Polish costume - shot in card de visite format]. [not after 1870]. Photograph form. 9.2x5.5 cm on original backing form. 10.5x6 cm, by Walery Rzewuski in Kraków.
Portrayed portrayed in 3/4 figure, looking straight ahead. He is dressed in national costume - a kontusz with slit sleeves and a buttoned-up żupan, belted with a kontusz belt. Photo pasted on original cardboard backing with blue border. On the reverse, in the upper part the coat of arms of Cracow among ornaments of floral threads, below an advertising vignette of the atelier (in black; variant no. 1 with figures of women with a dog and standing nearby a figure of a man with a cane and a hat) with a view of Rzewuski's house from the side of the façade and with a print: "Photographic Establishment of Walery Rzewuski in Cracow, Wesoła, Podwale Street, No 27.B.". Good condition.
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.