format:25 x 19 cm, in light passe-partou,heliogravure (visible plate imprint), cardboard , signed and titled on plate l.d .
Under the composition the signature of the artistic lithography workshop " Meisenbach Riffarth & Co".
The graphic comes from a portfolio illustrating the works of Sienkiewicz published in 1898.
Litka -daughter of Emilia Chwastowska, a twelve-year-old girl suffering from heart disease and asthma. She stays for treatment in Reichenhall. She adores Stanislaw Połaniecki, upon hearing of his infatuation with Marynia Pławicka she faints.
Georg Meisenbach was a German engraver and inventor of the autotype. In 1883 Meisenbach & Co. merged with Heinrich Riffarth & Co. to form Meisenbach Riffarth & Company, a well-known European printmaking firm.
Heliogravure (gr.helio + gravure) - a type of graphic intaglio printing technique, similar to aquatint, involving the photographic transfer of an image onto a metal plate (usually copper) and etching with photosensitive emulsion so that the brightest areas create the shallowest recesses. Invented in 1879.Printing is done in a special hand press. Heliogravure, which was widespread in the 19th century, was later supplanted by rotogravure, as heliogravure is an expensive and very time-consuming method. Heliogravure is used only when it is necessary to create a small number of copies of very high quality.
Piotr Stachiewicz (born October 29, 1858 in Nowosiółki Gościnne in Podolia, died April 14, 1938 in Cracow) - Polish painter and illustrator.In 1877-1883 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jan Matejko, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Florian Cynk. He continued his studies from 1882-1885 in Munich (Academy of Fine Arts - Techn. Malklasse from October 21, 1882).
Since 1885 he lived in Cracow, created religious, historical, genre paintings and portraits.