Oferta dla króla: album z rycinami Josepha Wahla

The paper discusses a collector’s item that the album composed of 29 etchings, kept at the Print Cabinet at the Warsaw University Library, constitutes. The majority of the prints were certainly executed by Joseph Wahl (twenty signed works), with the attribution of the remaining ones continuing uncle...

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1. Verfasser: Bernatowicz, Aleksandra (VerfasserIn)
Format: Artikel
Sprache:Polish
Veröffentlicht: 2019
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Zusammenfassung:The paper discusses a collector’s item that the album composed of 29 etchings, kept at the Print Cabinet at the Warsaw University Library, constitutes. The majority of the prints were certainly executed by Joseph Wahl (twenty signed works), with the attribution of the remaining ones continuing unclear. The works are often dated to 1776, 1777, or 1778. The dedication to King Stanislaus Augusts preceding the prints allows to consider the whole to be Wahl’s artistic portfolio. Its concept seems quite obvious: the Album was to demonstrate advances of science and aspiration to enjoy further favours of the patron. When the artist was compiling the discussed album, he was already receiving a small pension from the King. This is exactly how he signed the above-mentioned dedication, as he features there as a ‘Pensionnaire du roi’. Born in 1753, most likely in Saxony, Joseph Wahl lived in Warsaw at least from 1772 onwards. After some time, he was given the status of a scholarship holder, a privilege the King awarded to few individuals only. It was the discussed Album that quite likely proved instrumental in the decision to send Wahl abroad as a talented artist of high potential. That initiated his numerous later travels: first to Dresden (Wahl may have reached his destination around 1779 and remained for three years there). He subsequently travelled to Italy, where he stayed for around nine years in total.
Beschreibung:Illustrationen
ISSN:0006-3967

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