Oferta dla króla. Album z rycinami Josepha Wahla
Offer for the King. Album with Joseph Wahl s Prints

Summary/Abstract: The paper discusses a collector’s item that the album composed of 29 etchings, kept at the Print Cabinet at the Warsaw University Library, constitutes. The majority of the prints were certainly executed by Joseph Wahl (twenty signed works), with the attribution of the remaining ones continuing unclear. The works are often dated to 1776, 1777, or 1778. The dedication to King Stanislaus Augusts preceding the prints allows to consider the whole to be Wahl’s artistic portfolio. Its concept seems quite obvious: the Album was to demonstrate advances of science and aspiration to enjoy further favours of the patron. When the artist was compiling the discussed album, he was already receiving a small pension from the King. This is exactly how he signed the above-mentioned dedication, as he features there as a ‘Pensionnaire du roi’.

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