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:: Works of Art :: Paintings in collections of Polish museums and libraries - part 1 ::
Johann Christoph von Reinsperger (1711-1777) after Johann Justin Preissler (1698-1771)
FRONT PAGE: ATLAS COELESTIS/ STUDIO ET LABORE JOH. GABRIELIS DOPPERMAIERI MATH. P.P./ IMPENSIS HEREDUM HOMANNIANORUM NORIBERGAE(!) 1742
Nurnmberg, 1742
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. C XIII 1658
Copperplate, 51,7 x 31 cm
In the middle a celestial globe beside four astronomers: Claudius Ptolemy, Nicolaus Copernicus, John Keppler and Tycho de Brahe. In the background palms, two sphinx and view of the town. In the upper part puttos open sheets with drawings of the heliocentric system. Below the scene astronomical instruments.
Unknown
"NICOLAUS COPERNICUS PATER NICOLAI COPERNICI ASTROLOGIAE UNIUS MIRACULI NATI 1473 19 FEBRUARY"
Cracow (in the Lithography of Piotr Wyszkowski), 1830
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A XIV 1084
Lithograph, 14,4 x 10,6 cm
Figure of Nicolaus Copernicus father of the astronomer on his knees. In the distance appears the Virgin Marry with the Christ-Child, shields at the corners. Below inscription: "Des Hern Docter Nicolai Koppernick Thumber und Astronim zur Frauenburg/ Seines Seligen Vaters auch Nicolaus Koppernick genant seine Gestalt/
IOANNES BROSCIUS CURXELOVIENS DEPINGI CURAVIT/ TORUNII/ATO HIC REPOSUIT
Antoni Oleszczyński (1794-1879)
HEADPIECE OF AN OCCASIONAL PRINT OF JUBILEE OF 300 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE DEATH OF COPERNICUS CELEBRATED IN WARSAW IN 1843.
Paris, ca. 1843
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. B XV 1046
Woodcut, 45,6 x 29,9 cm
At the top of the headpiece three features:
a. Maison a Thorn ou est né Kopernic, 1473, sc. Simon after Adam Piliński
b. Statue de Kopernik, érigée a Varsovie en 1829, A.Oleszczyński
c. Maison a Fraenbourg, ou mourut Kopernic, 1543, sc. Simon after Adama Piliński
Antoni Oleszczyński (1794-1879) after Ferdynand D. Chotomski (1797-1880)
VIEW OF THE COPERNICUS HOUSE IN FROMBORK, TITLED: "WIDOK DOMU W FRAUENBURGU ZAMIESZKAŁEGO NIEGDYŚ PRZES ZNAKOMITEGO ZIOMKA NASZEGO KOPERNIKA...".
Paris, (L. Martinet), 1836
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A XXXVIII 2830
The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, 8/II - 1007: no 63
Steel engraving, plate 10,4 x 14 cm (sheet 24 x 30,8 cm)
Graphics out of : Rozmaitości polskie /Polish miscellany/ published by A. Oleszczyński (French edition: Variété polonaises Paris 1832). Below the view an explanation in French.
Antoni Oleszczyński (1794-1879)
"NIC. COPERNIK/ NATUS THORUNII IN POLONIA 1473 CASIMIRO IV IOG: REGNANTE/ OB.: FROUVENBURGIAE/ 1543"
Paris, (Drouart), 1843
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. C I 17
Steel engraving, plate. 40 x 30 cm (sheet: 44 x 33,5)
Torso in profile turned into the left side (in a fact likeness of Johann Stöffler) after XVII-th graphics by B. Moncornet, the signs of the zodiac in the background; beside the inscription: EX AUTHENTICO PROTOTIPO ERAS [mi] REINHOLDI, F[ECIT]. A[ntoni]. OLESZ [czyński] P[olonus]. A frame with the figures of polish personages connected to Copernicus and its work, as well explanatory inscriptions. At the bottom nine various images of Copernicus.
Oleszczyński Anthony after Reinhold Erasm
NICHOLAS COPERNICUS (1473-1543). ASTRONOMER AND ITS 9 OTHER PORTRAITS AS WELL PORTRAITS OF PERSON CONNECTED TO HIM.
Paris, 1855
The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, top. POL II - cat. 008396
steel engraving : 39,7 x 30,1 cm
The main portraits represents by mistake Johann Stoeffler. In the lower part inscription: Nic. Copernicus Natus Thorunii in Polonia 1473 and other ones.
A. Oleszczyński (1794-1879)
2. PICTURE ON OCCASION OF 300 TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE N. COPERNICUS DEATH AND HIS WORK "DE REVOLUTIONIBUS"
Before 1853, Paris
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 10569-1820/II
Test print, steel engraving 51 x 36,2 cm, paper
Antoni Oleszczyński
PORTRAIT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS [IN A FACT OF J. STOFFLER]
1843 r.
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF / G / 137; MF / G / 146; MF / G / 150
Paper, steel engraving; 40 x 30 cm
Oval portrait surrounded by figures of astronomers and scholars of different epochs, below in the lower part of the main engraving a series of Copernicus' portraits after the most known artists.
A. Oleszczyński
PORTRAIT OF N. COPERNICUS
1855, Paris
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 6227-5/II
Paper, steel engraving, 54 x 42 cm
Fabian Sarnecki (1800-1894)
UNTITLED
Poznań, no year
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. AO VII 654
Pencil on the tracing paper, 12,3 x 16,8 cm
Sitting Copernicus seen from the front leaning against a globe, holding a drawing on his knees and a trammel in his right hand.
J.G.
MIKOLAY KOPERNIK
Warsaw, 1826
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. B XI 801
Lithograph, 43,4 x 29,4 cm
Copernicus bust turned 3 to right, model of heliocentric system kept in the left hand.
Unknown
"IN MEMORY OF 400 ANNIVERSARY OF NICOLAUS COPERNICUS' BIRTHDAY CELEBRATED THANKS TO EFFORT AND EXPENDITURE OF THE COUNCIL OF CITY CRACOW"
Cracow, (Lit. J. Brydak and I. Bielikiewicz), 1873
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. B XV 1045
Lithograph, 43,5 x 35,4 cm
In the upper part image of Nicholas Copernicus after Jan Matejko. Below astronomer's biography. At the back "Order of ceremony of 400-th birthday celebrated in Cracow on 18-20th February 1873."
Tadeusz Cieślewski Syn (1895-1944)
"NICOLAUS COPERNICUS"
Warsaw, 1943
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. B XXXIX 1845
Woodcut, 21,9 x 14 cm (sheet 28,2 x 19 cm)
Figure of Copernicus with a book and a trammel, the heliocentric system in the background, below view of Torun and a book.
M-me Lesueur wg Ferdinanda Sébastiana Vernier
"STATUE DE KOPERNIK A WARSOVIE/ EST'ATUA DE COPERNICO EN VARSOVIE"
Paris, 1840
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A XIV 1085
Steel engraving, plate. 13,9 x 9 cm (sheet 21,7 x 13,8 cm)
Copernicus' statue by B. Thorwaldsen in Warsaw. The astronomer in profile turned into right, out of : Ch. Foster, Pologne, Paris, issued after 1840 before 1871, tab. 46.
M. Lesseur after picture by Vernier
STATUE TO NICOLAUS COPERNICUS IN WARSAW 1840
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF / G / 9
Paper, steel engraving ; 17,7 x 11,3 cm
Liesueur after Vernier
STATUE TO NICOLAUS COPERNICUS IN WARSAW [STATUE DE KOPERNIK A VARSOVIE]
1840 r., Paris
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/ G / 240; MF / G / 245
Paper, steel engraving; 20 x 12 cm
Out of edition by M. Charles Forster, Pologne, Paris 1840 ., statue to Copernicus in profile, armillary sphere in his hand
Balthasar Moncornet (ca. 1600-1668) I. Mittannour Chamahista (?)
"DOMNUS [!] NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, SACERDOS, CANONICUS/ REGULARIS, ASTRONOMORUM KORYPHAEUS" (IN A FACT LIKENESS OF JOHANN STOEFFLER)
Before 1668
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A XXVI 2185
Copperplate, 15,6 x 11,5 cm
Torso in a profile into the left side in the oval-shaped frame, inscription on the level of the mouth: "Spes mea in Deo Jesu". In the upper part a picture of heliocentric system, below tree crossed torches, the bishop's cross on the other side. At the bottom inscription: "Ex Authentico Prototypo Erasmi Reinholdi, Copernic, Trutinat Terrae, Lunae que Labores,/ Sidereas Monstrat Pausas, Abstrusa que Pandit. Faciebat I. Mittannour Chamahista Moncornet Excudit".
Engraving after supposedly authentic portrait of N. Copernicus which was owned by German astronomer Erasm Reinhold.
Unknown
"DOMNUS (!) NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, SACERDOS, CANONICUS/ REGULARIS, ASTRONOMORUM KORYPHAEUS" (IN A FACT LIKENESS OF JOHANN STOEFFLER)
Second half of XVII.
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A XXVI 2187
Copperplate, plate: 17,8 x 11 cm (sheet: 25,1 x 17,2)
Torso in a profile into the right in the oval-shaped. Engraving after graphics of Balthasar Moncornet dated before 1668 .
Unknown
"DOMNUS (!) NICOLAUS COPERNICUS, SACERDOS, CANONICUS/ REGULARIS, ASTRONOMORUM KORYPHAEUS" (IN A FACT LIKENESS OF JOHANN STOEFFLER).
XIX.
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A III 154
Lithograph, 15,6 x 14,4 cm
Torso in a profile into the left. Picture after copperplate by Balthasar Moncornet dated before 1668 .
Jan Ferdynand Gotfryd Krethlow (1767-1842)
"NICOLAUS KOPERNIKUS / NICOLAS COPERNIC"
Berlin, 1795
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. B XI 802
Copperplate, 9,3 x 6,7 cm
Bust into the left against an oval background. Picture from: Almanach historique et généalogique pour l'année bissextile 1796 ..., Berlin 1796.
Theodor de Bry (1528-1598) after woodcut by Tobias Stimmera
"NICOLAUS COPERNICUS TORNAEUS BORUSSUS, MATHEMAT. NAT AO. 1473. OB. 1543"
Frankfort on the Men, 1598
The Kornik Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. A XXVI 2186
Copperplate, plate 13,8 x 10,7 cm (sheet: 19,4 x 15,2)
Torso turned 3 to left with the lily of valley, inscription in the rectangle frame with a fixture ornament, horns of plenty at the corners and the plate in the lower part with the inscription: "Non docet instabiles Copernicus aetheris orbes, / Sed terra instabiles arguit ille vices. Vu 2".
Engraving after: J. Boissard, Icones virorum illustrium ..., vol. 3, Francfordii ad Moenum 1568, tab. 48, p. 314
Nicolaus Copernicus
Teodor de Bry
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS PORTRAIT
1598 r. [ edit.1650 r.]
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork MF/ G / 5; MF / 138; MF / G / 246
The Varmian and Mazurian Museum in Olsztyn, G 1669 OMO
The Regional Museum in Torun; cat. no MT/MK/46.
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 11274-2276/II
Paper, copperplate; 13,8 x 10,7 cm
Picture after Boissard J.J., Icones virorum illustrium doctrina...
Francfordii ad M., 1598
No MF/G/246 very poor condition
Johann Jakob Vogel (acting 1670-1690) after an epitaph portrait in St. John's Church in Torun
"NICOLAUS COPERNICUS THORUNENSIS PRUSSUS, MATHEMATICUS CELEBERIMUS/ EX MONUMENTO TORUNENSI EXPRESSUS".
Frankfurt on the Men, 1683
The Kornik Library of The Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no.. B XII 866
The Varmian and Mazurian Museum in Olsztyn; cat. no G 689 OMO
Copperplate, plate: 20,6 x 15,2 cm (sheet 26,4 x 19,7)
Torso turned 3 to right hands joined in the prayer before crucifix, in the distance an armillary sphere and a trammel standing on the shelf. In the lower part a plate with the inscription: "Non parem Pauli gratiam requiro/ Veniam Petri neq polco, sed quam/ In crucis ligno dederas latroni/ sedulus oro".
Graphic after: C. Hartknoch, Alt- und Neues Preussen geschrieben durch ..., Frankfurt 1683, p. 371
Georg Engelbach (1817-1894) after the picture by Tytus Maleszewski (1827-1898) based on a painting supposed authorship of Ghirlandajo
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Berlin, latter part of XIX.
The Kornik Library of The Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no.. D VI 129
Lithograph, 65,6 x 48,8 cm (sheet 74,8 x 65,0 cm)
Bust into right, model of the heliocentric system in the left hand.
Nicolaus Copernicus
G.Engelbach after Tadeusz Maleszewski and Ghirlandaio
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS' PORTRAIT
1873
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork, MF / G / 171
Paper, lithograph; 58,8 x 42,5 cm
Printed: W. Korn, Berlin
T. Maleszewski, lit. G. Engelbach
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS' -ENGRAVING
Second half of XIX c. Berlin
The Jagiellonian University Museum, 15529-2381/II
Lithograph, paper 77 x 62,5 cm
Henryk Redlich (1838-1884) after Wojciech Gerson (1831-1901)
COPERNICUS LECTURING THE ASTRONOMY IN ROME IN 1500 YEAR.
TOWARZYSTWO ZACHETY SZTUK PIEKNYCH W KR ÓLESTWIE POLSKIM CZŁONKOM SWOIM ZA ROK 1877" / (THE ASSOCIATION OF FINE ARTS PROMOTION IN CONGRESS KINGDOM OF POLAND THEIR OWN MEMBERS IN 1877).
Munich (print Fr. Felsing), 1877
The Kornik Library of The Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. CXXVIII 2486
Copperplate, plate: 37,5 x 49,7 cm (sheet: 42,8 x 58 cm)
Copernicus' figure standing at the professor's desk before listening to him the Pope Alexander VI and the group of scholars and artists among whose are: Castiglione, Bembo, Perugino, Dominik Marja, Michelozzi, M.A. Buonarotti, Cesar Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci, Fracastor and Bramante.
Henryk Redlich after a picture by Wojciech Gerson
COPERNICUS LECTURING ON THE ASTRONOMY IN ROME 1500
Munich, second half of the XIX c.
The Zamoysky Museum in Kozlowka, MPK/MR/1163
copperplate on the white blotting paper, 37,5 x 49,9 cm ( 53,5 x 70,9 cm)
Henryk Redlich after a picture by Wojciech Gersona
COPERNICUS LECTURING ON THE ASTRONOMY IN ROME 1500
Munich, 1877
The Varmian and Mazurian Museum in Olsztyn,cat. no G 1854 OMO
Lithograph, 29,5 x 45,2 cm
Henryk Redlich (1838-1884) after Wojciech Gerson (1831-1901)
"N I C O L O C O P E R N I C O - SPIEGA IL SUO SISTEMA DINANZI ALESSANDRO VI/ E LA SUA CORTE/ QUADRO DI ALBERTO GERSON DI VARSOVIA"
ca. 1877
The Kornik Library of The Polish Academy of Sciences, collection of graphics, cat. no. CXXXI 2733
Lithograph, stone 26,2 x 40,6 cm (sheet 32,5 x 47,5 cm)
Copernicus' figure standing at the professor's desk before listening to him the Pope Alexander VI and the group of scholars and artists among whose are: Castiglione, Perugino, Bembo, Dominik Marja, Michelozzi, M.A. Buonarotti, Cesar Borgia, Leonardo da Vinci, Fracastor and Bramante
Henryk Redlich after Wojciech Gerson
COPERNICUS' LECTURE IN ROME
1877
The Nicolaus Copernicus Museum in Frombork, inv. MF / G / 170
Paper, aquatint; 40 x 50 cm
Fajans Maksymilian after Orda Napoleon
TORUN. COPERNICUS' HOUSE
Warsaw ?
The Library of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Cracow, 8/II - 1017: nr 166
Lithograph, 30,1 x 45,5 cm (folio)
In the lower part inscript. : Rys. z natury Napoleon Orda - Lit. w Lit. M. Fajansa w Warszawie:
Below: Toruń nad Wisłą/ ( Zachodnie Prusy); below in two lines: Dom w którym się urodził... 1543; acompanied by french translation