Estate in Butsiv (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Jan Konstanty Żupański issued "Kielisiński's Album", gathering the artist's scattered works, most of which had remained unpublished during his lifetime.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 panoramic rectangular composition showing a corner of a village on the shore of a river or a pond. In the foreground unfolds a wide water expanse from which thick clumps of reeds and sedges grow. On the right, a small wooden bridge is thrown across the body of water. On the opposite bank, cozy village buildings beneath thatched roofs can be discerned among the trees. The space of the sky is rendered with horizontal hatching featuring soft cumulus clouds.

Beneath the image, the artist's inscriptions read: on the left – "K.W.K. rys. z n. 1835." [Drawn from nature by K.W.K. 1835]; and on the right – "rob aqf. 1838. 9. Marса." [Executed in etching. 9 March 1838].

Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery