"VISHNIOVETS NAD HORYN" (VOLYN GUBER.)
Size without frame: 39.9cm x 29.9cm (28.7cm x 19.6cm)
Size with frame: 43.1cm x 33.2cm
"A defensive castle founded by Dmitry Korybut around 1395. Vishnyovets belonged r 1513 to X.X.
Czartoryski, returned to the Vishniovtsy family r 1610. The modern palace was founded in the former ruins by X.
Jeremiasz, and completed by King Michał Korybut r. 1720. Vishniowiec belongs to Hr. Włodzimierz de
Brohl Plater."
Vishnyovets (ukr. Вишнівець) is an urban-type settlement located in the Ternopil region of Ukraine, in the
zbaras region, a former seat of the Polish magnates. The town has a population of about 3,400. Palace
The palace of the Wiśniowiecki and Mniszch families - is located on a high escarpment, above the ravine of the Horynia River and surrounded by a
system of bastion fortifications. It is one of the most outstanding Baroque magnate residences in Volhynia.
magnate settlements in Volyn. The settlement was first mentioned in 1395, but under the name of
Wisniowiec the locality was mentioned for the first time in the middle of the 15th century. Wisniowiec from
the beginning of its existence until the last partition was part of Poland and was part of Volyn province.
Volyn province.
Below the view the title (also in French) and signatures - drawn from nature by Napoleon Orda
(1807-1873). Printed in the well-known Warsaw workshop of Maksymilian Fajans, it comes from the series
"Album of historical views of Poland." Housed in a frame behind glass (hook for hanging).
GOOD+ condition, minor soiling.
Napoleon Mateusz Tadeusz Orda coat of arms Orda (born February 11, 1807 in Vorotsevichy, died April 26.
April 1883 in Warsaw). Polish illustrator, painter, pianist and composer. He studied at the
Vilnius University in mathematical and natural sciences.
In 1833, he took up studies in Paris
painting under the landscape painter Pierre Girard and music under Frédéric Chopin. After numerous travels
he returned to Poland in 1856 and settled in his hometown of Vorotsevichy. During his numerous wanderings
around the country he made more than 1,000 drawings from nature. In 1873 he undertook the monumental task of publishing
at his own expense "Album of historical views of Poland". The lithography published 260
views. They were drawn on stone by Alojzy Misierowicz.
