Londyńskimi śladami Stanisława Juliana Ostroroga
Retracing the tracks of Stanisław Julian Ostroróg in London

Summary/Abstract: The text is an account of a trip made by the author to London in autumn 2008 in order to visit the places familiar to S. J. Ostroróg. To begin with, the author tracked down the grave at Brompton Cemetery (ill. 17-20). The tombstone is made of rose marble, featuring the Ostroróg coat of arms and carved inscription: IN LOVING MEMORY OF | COUNT S.J. OSTRORÓG | 31 MAY 1890. AGED 55 YEARS. This grave may have been funded by his second wife. Next, the author went to 5 Conduit Street, where in 1883 Ostroróg opened his fi rst studio. In 1886 he took a photograph of Queen Victoria. The house where the studio was placed still exists (ill. 21), but it was largely rebuilt and modernised. A second studio was housed in at a fashionable address: 164 Regent Street, replaced in the mid-1920s during the street’s almost complete rebuilding. It was here that successive portrait-photographs of Queen Victoria were made in 1887, the year of the jubilee. At the end of the article the author explains that the address of another Ostroróg’s studio was Witherill Road and not Muswell Hill, confused by previous Polish scholars for the name of a street. A similar misunderstanding arose in an article by A. Ostroróg (Znany – nieznany – zapomniany. Nieco informacji o Stanisławie Julianie Ostrorogu - Known, unknown, forgotten. Some information about Stanisław Julian Ostroróg, „Dagerotyp”, 14, 2005, pp. 5-13) concerning the seat of the London Governmental Deputy (Londyński Pełnomocnik Rządowy), where the aristocrat-photographer submitted documents in 1862: its premises were located on Bedford Row, in what would historically have been the County of Middlesex.

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