[MOSZYÑSKA Helena - portrait photograph]. [ca. 1871]. Photograph form. 13.8x9.8 cm on original backing form....

[MOSZYÑSKA Helena - portrait photograph]. [ca. 1871]. Photograph form. 13.8x9.8 cm on original base form. 16.8x11 cm, by Walery Rzewuski in Kraków.
Portrait of the sitter shown in bust, in profile, after cutting her hair due to illness after returning from Venice. Photo glued on original cardboard backing with red border. Print on the lower margin: "Photographed from Nature by Walery Rzewuski in Krakow Wesoła, Podwale Street, 27.B.". On the back inscription: "Rostworowski". Very good condition.
H. Moszyńska (1849-1907) - daughter of Piotr, former marshal of the nobility of the Volhynia gubernia and exile to Siberia, later spouse of Joachim August Rostworowski (1822-1894), from Rybna near Kraków. She was the mother of Karol Hubert Rostworowski (1877-1938 )a playwright, and grandmother of Prof. Emanuel Rostworowski (1923-1989), longtime editor-in-chief of PSB. The photo is sometimes mistakenly considered an image of the portrait's husband.
W. Rzewuski (1837-1888) - Cracow photographer, social activist, one of the pioneers of Polish photography. He studied at the Technical Institute in Cracow and from 1857-1858 at the Vienna Polytechnic. From 1859 he worked as a photographer, first outdoors, then in a studio in a rented room at 83 Grodzka St. In 1861 he opened an establishment at 6 Krupnicza St., then at 29 Kopernika St. Between 1864 and 1867 he put up a house at 27b Kolejowa St., where on November 1, 1867 he opened his renowned establishment with a modern laboratory atelier. Prominent citizen and councilor of the city of Cracow. Known for his ethnographic photography, landscapes of the Tatra Mountains, he created so-called "living pictures". Author of portraits, including insurgents of 1863 and the first album photos of actors.