[TOWARNICKI - portrait photograph - shot in card de visite format]. [l. 60s of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 8,...

[TOWARNICKI - portrait photograph - shot in card de visite format]. [l. 60s of the 19th century]. Photograph form. 8.7x5.7 cm on original backing form. 10x6 cm, taken at the Teodor Szajnok workshop in Lviv.
Portrait of the sitter in bust. In the lower right corner of the underlay print: "T. Szajnok." Photo pasted on original cardboard backing. On the back an advertising vignette of the establishment printed: "Teodor Szajnok Photographer at Pojezuickiye Street under L. 174 2/4 opposite the English Hotel in Lviv " and a pencil inscription: "Towarnicki". Local minor stains, otherwise good condition.
T. Szajnok (1833-1894) - a noted Lviv photographer. Before 1862 he ran an establishment after Chołoniewski at 174 2/4 Pojezuicka St., from 1867 in his own newly built house at 727 2/4 Meyer St. In 1863 he photographed participants in the uprising. He was the author of the manual "Photographic Guide for the Use of Professional Photographers and Enthusiasts" published in 1893 in Berlin. Between 1868 and 1869 he published two albums of photographs (Album krasiczyńskie and Album żółkiewskie) for the first time in Poland hand-printed in the form of light-prints.