format:25x19cmin light passe-partout, heliogravure(visible plate imprint)
Signature of Meisenbach Riffarth&Co" lithography workshop under the composition. The print comes from a portfolio illustrating the works of Sienkiewicz published in 1898.
Georg Meisenbach was a German engraver and inventor of the autotype. In 1883 Meisenbach & Co. merged with Heinrich Riffarth & Co. and founded Meisenbach Riffarth & Company, a well-known European graphic design firm.
Piotr Stachiewicz (born October 29, 1858 in Novosiolki Goscinne in Podolia, died April 14, 1938 in Krakow) - Polish painter and illustrator.
In 1877-1883 he studied at the School of Fine Arts in Cracow under Jan Matejko, Władysław Łuszczkiewicz and Florian Cynk. He continued his studies in 1882-1885 in Munich (Academy of Fine Arts - Techn. Malklasse from October 21, 1882).
Since 1885 he lived in Cracow, created religious, historical, genre paintings and portraits.
Heliogravure (gr.helio + gravure) - a type of graphic intaglio printing technique, similar to aquatint, involving the photographic transfer of an image onto a metal plate (usually copper) and etching with photosensitive emulsion in such a way that the brightest places create the shallowest depressions. Invented in 1879.Printing is done in a special hand press. Heliogravure, which was widespread in the 19th century, was later supplanted by rotogravure, as heliogravure is an expensive and very time-consuming method. Heliogravure is used only when it is necessary to create a small number of copies of very high quality.
