Orangery in Medyka (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)

Kajetan Kielisiński created numerous etchings and drawings dedicated to folklore, the life of Polish villages and towns, historical monuments, and landscapes. In 1853, the Poznań publisher Jan Konstanty Żupański issued "Kielisiński's Album", gathering the artist's scattered works, most of which had remained unpublished during his lifetime. Two years later, in 1855, Żupański released a supplementary volume to complement the previous edition, which included etchings depicting coins and seals, figures in historical costumes, alongside rural and urban landscapes.
The presented etching belongs to the graphic sheets published within this 1855 supplement.
The sheet depicts a corner of the manorial park of the Counts Pawlikowski in the village of Medyka. In the left part of the composition, against a sky with cumulus clouds, rises a two-storey brick building, its facade partially obscured by bushes. From it, extending into the depth of the space, stretches a long greenhouse with slanted windows, designed for cultivating exotic plants on the estate. To the right, beneath a wide-branched tree, a small round decorative fountain is positioned.
In the foreground on the left, two female figures are depicted in contemporary attire and hats, with two children playing on the grass nearby.

Beneath the image, the artist's inscriptions read: on the left – "K.W.K. rys. z n. 1837." [Drawn from nature by K.W.K. 1837]; and on the right – "rob. aqf. 1838. 31 Marса w Medyce" [Executed in etching. 31 March 1838 in Medyka].

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery