Format: 46x30cm size of the sheet, 20x18cm size of the composition, lithography hand colored in watercolor, handmade paper
Seriea II Polish Army c.1800,Duchy of Warsaw
Under the illustration from left to right corner: K. Wawrosz collated and drawn | By Wł. Bartynowski | R.M. Zadrazil photolithographed in Kraków below middle: (Imitation reserved)
Lithographs of drawings by Karol Wawrosz, were included in Materyałach do ikonografii królów, zbroi i wojska polskiego ..., published by Wladyslaw Bartynowski, Krakow, 1908.
Karol Wawrosz (born Zywiec 1860 - ?) - Polish painter and illustrator of the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. He was born into the family of a forester. Initially he studied painting at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow. From 1879 he worked for Władysław Bartynowski as a draftsman. From April 18, 1888 he studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Munich in the painting class under Alexander von Liezen-Meyer (1839-1898). Illustrator of books (including B. Twardowski, Wojsko polskie Kościuszki, Poznań 1894, Bartynowski's Wizerunki królów, uzbrojenie i wojsko polskie and Materiały do ikonografii królów, armroi i wojska polskiego). Author of the drawings for E. Czapski's catalog of Polish numismatics.
Władysław Bartynowski (June 25, 1832 - December 16, 1918) inherited his father's passion for collecting. He continued and nurtured it throughout his life, and even created his own "school" of numismatics, even though he never held a university chair. Marian Gumowski and Feliks Kopera, among others, studied and gained practical knowledge in his studio. This is not surprising, as he was an "institution" in Krakow, known for his unique interests in books, numismatics and collecting. From an early age he collected coins and medals, exchanged doubloons, bought new objects for his collection, and made galvanic copies with the method he invented for reproducing numismatic coins, commonly known as bartynotypy. The Archives of the National Museum in Cracow have collected numerous objects left by Wladyslaw Bartynowski, including workshop materials for planned publications on the projected dictionary of painters and engravers from ancient times to his contemporaries
