Title: Graphic portfolio cover with view from plate 21: "Oak doors and interior of the church in Łagiewniki Wielkie, Lubliniec district, from the end of the 16th century".
Author: Wiktor Gosieniecki
Description of subject:
Notes: Cardboard portfolio cover (there were also much rarer semi-cardboard portfolios).
Figure was publisher's trimmed, slightly reduced in size compared to plate 21 (two-color) by upper and lower margins, where there was also author's signature
About the author: Wiktor Gosieniecki (19.12.1876 Strzelno pov. Mogilno - 29.08.1956 Gdansk) painter and graphic artist, also engaged in applied art and scenography, educator. Studied in Berlin and Munich, upon his return settled in Gniezno, and from 1912 became permanently associated with Poznan (with a break for the occupation), co-organized from 1919 the School of Decorative Arts, where he became a professor (later operating as the State Institute of Fine Arts and the State Higher School of Fine Arts), made primarily in the 1920s and 1930s lithographs and color lithographs with architectural motifs, author of several graphic volumes in lithography; see SAP vol. 2 pp. 412-414 and especially Mulczynski 1996 pp. 112-117
Literature: Gronska 1994 item 218
Additional information:
State of preservation:
Item in quite nice condition, small stain in the composition, margins of the portfolio heavily damaged and stained
Grading of state of preservation:
- perfect condition: (6) no flaws, no signs of use, like new
- very nice: almost perfect condition (+5), very slight defects, almost like new (unused)
- nice: very good condition (5), very slight, basically insignificant defects
- quite nice: condition - very good (-5), insignificant, insignificant defects
- more than good: condition between very good and good (4/5), quite insignificant, not very significant defects
- at least good: condition at least good (+4), not very significant defects
- good: condition of good (4), fairly significant defects
- less than good: condition -good (-4), significant defects
- more than sufficient: condition between good and sufficient (3/4), very significant defects
- at least sufficient: condition at least sufficient (+3), quite poor condition, extremely significant defects, almost destructive
- Sufficient: sufficient condition (3), poor condition, major defects in the card, basically destruct
The evaluation of the state of preservation and some other elements of the description have some subjectivity, but we make them with our best knowledge and the greatest possible reliability, if in doubt, please refer to the scan of the object or contact us.
