Seals of the Jurors of the City of Krakow (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
Kajetan Kielisinski
Basic information
- ID
- Г-IV-1059_3
- Author
- Kajetan Kielisinski
- Name
- Seals of the Jurors of the City of Krakow (K. W. Kielisinski's Album)
- Technique
- etching
- Material
- paper
- Dimensions
- 27.5 x 35.3 cm (height x width)
Additionally
- Type
- graphic art
- Genre
- decorative
- Provenance
- Transferred by the Lviv State Republican Historical Museum, 1951
Information about author
Object description
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Jan Konstanty Żupański issued "Kielisiński's Album", gathering the artist's scattered works, most of which had remained unpublished during his lifetime.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 is a graphic record of four ancient seals of the Krakow assessors (jurors). All four impressions are grouped into a vertical pyramidal composition, recreating the texture of wax or sealing wax and the silk cords by which the seals were appended to documents.
The impressions are circular with Latin legends (circumferential inscriptions). The central fields feature depictions of St Stanislaus, St Florian, a bust portrait of King Casimir, and a large crowned monogram "K" – the symbol of King Casimir the Great and the city of Krakow.
Kielisiński reproduces the sphragistic material with meticulous precision, conveying the iconography of the relief, the scripts, and the heraldic symbolism.
The presented etching belongs to the graphic sheets published within this 1855 supplement.
The sheet is a graphic record of four ancient seals of the Krakow assessors (jurors). All four impressions are grouped into a vertical pyramidal composition, recreating the texture of wax or sealing wax and the silk cords by which the seals were appended to documents.
The impressions are circular with Latin legends (circumferential inscriptions). The central fields feature depictions of St Stanislaus, St Florian, a bust portrait of King Casimir, and a large crowned monogram "K" – the symbol of King Casimir the Great and the city of Krakow.
Kielisiński reproduces the sphragistic material with meticulous precision, conveying the iconography of the relief, the scripts, and the heraldic symbolism.
Inscriptions
Beneath the image, the artist's inscriptions read: on the left – "K.W.K. 8. Stycz. 1842." [K.W.K. 8 January 1842]; and on the right – "w Kurniku." [in Kórnik].
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
