Vilnius. The Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania
| Authors: |
Alojzy Misierowicz (1825–1905) Napoleon Orda (1807–1883 ) |
| Created: | 1876 |
| Material: | paper |
| Technique: | litograph |
| Dimensions: | 31.50 × 43.70 cm |
| Signature: | inscription: Rys Napoleon Orda / Lit.w Lit. M. Fajansa w Warszawie / WILNO / Dolny zamek założony przez W.X. Gedymina r. 1322 Odbudowany 1505 przez Alexandra Jagielończyka dla zony Heleny corki Jwana Wasylewicza. Tu mieszkali Królowie Zygmunt I i Zygmunt August. Zniszczony za Wojny Szwedzkiej 1661 Stał w murach do r. 1797 przytykając murami do Kaplicy S.go Kazimierza. Zrysowany z natury przez Architekta Rossa r. 1793. / Le Château inferieur representé ici a été fondé par le Grand duc Gedymin en 1332 Reconstruit en 1505 par le roi Alexandre Jagiellon pour sa femme Hélène fille du Car Jwan Wasilewicz. Il devint la demeure des rois Sigismond I et Sigismond Auguste. Detruit pendant les guerres de Suede au 1661 Les ruines attenautes à la chapelle de S.t Casimir existaient encore en 1797. Le dessin que nous offrous ici a été fait par l’architecte Ross en 1793. |
Lithograph based on a drawing by Napoleon Orda, which was based on a drawing by J.C. Rossi, Napoleon Orda, ‘Album of Historic Sights in Poland’, series II, No. 75.
Napoleon Orda (1807–1883) studied at Vilnius University, took part in the 1831 uprising, and after its suppression fled to Paris where he studied art. He returned home to the Varacevičiai estate near Pinsk (now in Belarus) only in 1856, and then travelled around Lithuania, Byelorussia and Poland, drawing about 1,000 architectural scenes. Alojzy Misierowicz (1825–1905) made lithographs of his drawings for the book Album widokow historycznych w Polsce (Album of Historic Sights in Poland) at Maksymilian Fajans’ printing press in Warsaw. Orda published the book in fascicles, at his own expense, between 1875 and 1882. There are a few lithographs in it of now lost monuments in Vilnius, such as the palace of Barbara Radziwiłł and that of the grand dukes, which Orda made from drawings by J. C. Rossi (the image of the Palace of the Grand Dukes is reversed).
Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album VILNIUS. TOPOPHILIA II (2015). Compiler and author Laima LaučkaitėExpositions: “Vilnius. Topophilia. Views of Vilnius from the collection of the law firm Ellex Valiunas”, 5 October – 26 November 2017, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius (curator Laima Laučkaitė)
