"PECHARA ON THE BOHEMIAN RIVER" (G. PODOLSK)
Size without frame: 39.8cm x 30cm
Size with frame: 43cm x 33cm
"During the reign of the Turks over Podolia, the Sultan gave the unpopulated area r. 1682 to hospodar
Multan Dukas who built his castle in Pechar nad Bohem. 1685 the Sultan granted Pechara
granted to Jurek Chmielnicki appointing him prince of Sarmatia. Now the property of Hr. Konstanty
Potocki."
Pechera (ukr. Печера) - a village in Ukraine, Vinnytsia Oblast, Tulchinsky District, seat of the
village council. In 2001 it had a population of about 1,100. The village was founded around 1580
year.In the first half of the 19th century Jan Shwiejkovsky erected an empire style palace in the village
(classicist) style on the site of a small manor house. The palace had a portico with four Ionic columns
supporting a triangular pediment. From the garden it had an Ionic recess with a balustrade that surrounded a terrace.
In 1904 Janina and Konstanty Potocki built a neo-Romanesque mausoleum designed by
Władysław Horodecki, born in nearby Szołudki. It currently serves as a church.
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, some 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.
