Plonski Michal, 3 etchings on 1 arc, [Recuil de 19. planches, 1802].

Three etchings on one white sheet measuring 42.8 x 29.3 cm. Description after Rastawiecki:
1. An ancient figure of a Pole, in ancient costume. Cap with feathers, belt and saber at the side. ("nobleman") signed in lower left corner : M. Płonski f | 1802 ; dimensions: 9.8 x 5 cm
2. grandfather supported on a stick. signed in the lower right corner: MP; dimensions: 6.6 x 5 cm
3.Various small figures two rows below each other ("types and caricatures". Signed in upper left corner: M.Płonski S | 1802 ; in upper right corner illustration number : 7; dimensions: 9.4 x 18.5cm
Rare sheet for Recuil de 19. planches.... 1802.

Plonski Michal (1782-1812) - a leading Polish draughtsman and printmaker at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, a pupil of Jan Piotr Norblin, left Poland in 1799, first staying in Copenhagen, from about 1801 spent several years in Amsterdam, then moved to Paris, from where he returned to his homeland in 1810. He produced most of his graphic works in exile, and in 1802 published "Recueil de 19. planches ..." in Amsterdam, re-published while in Paris.

Bibliography:
Tatarkiewicz W. Michal Plonski, Artistic monographs volume X., Gebethner and Wolff, Warsaw, 1926, reproduced items 1 and 3 (this one in the version with 3 rows, not two as with us)
Rastawiecki E., Dictionary of Polish engravers, Poznan, 1886, items 8, 16 and 17, pp. 241 - 245.