Stanisław Węgrzecki, president of Warsaw. Lithograph ca. 1830.
Sheet size 47.5 x 32.5
No publisher's address or signatures. Very rare.
Stanislaw Węgrzecki, born 10 XI 1765, Warsaw, died 12 II 1845, there, political activist, lawyer; associated with H. Kołłątai and I. Potocki; 1793 member of the insurrectionist conspiracy; during the Kosciuszko Uprising 1794 belonged to the left, participant in the Warsaw Uprising; 1807-15 president of Warsaw; member of the National Freemasonry and the Patriotic Society (W. Lukasinski); member of TPN; in the November Uprising 1830-31 again president of Warsaw.
