[ZAŁUSKI Andrzej Stanisław Kostka]. Andreas Stanislaus Kostka Comesin [!] Zaluskie Zaluski Episcopus Cracoviensis Dux Severiae.
Mezzotint with etching form. 24x17.3 on ark. 49.5x32.3 cm. Portrait of Bishop Andrzej Załuski (1695-1758). Under the likeness the coat of arms of the Załuski family (Junosza) and an engraved inscription: "One of the Founders of the Public Library, Zealous Protector of the Cracow Academy, Mining and National Economy, the first what introduced Potatoes to Poland". The original plate was made in the first half of the 19th century (according to the catalog Portr. BN 6175). The print presented here was made much later, probably in the interwar years at the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts by J. Wojnarski. Horizontal edges slightly soiled and slightly browned.
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