MARIAN JAROCZYNSKI (1819-1901), RULER IV AT SMOLENSK, 1853

lithograph/paper, 57.5 x 74 cm (sheet)
inscriptions under the composition, left: Lithographed in Poznań by M. Jaroczyński from a cooperative painting donated to the Działyński Library by Countess Tysenhaus; right the same in French
below the text (left in Polish, right in French): The Muscovite chiefs, Mikhail Borisovich Schin, (Shchokin) Semyon Prozorovsky Artomius / Izmaylov, Prince Bialosielski, etc, etc, and all the commanders of the enlisted rotas, French, An- / English, Scottish and German, on the 1st of March, the year 1634 after the liberation of Smolensk from / the siege of Moscow, lay down their banners and Koleinie foreheads before Wladyslaw IV the King of Poland.
between the blocks of text a circle with an inscription on the perimeter: BIT MEDAL FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE MEMORIAL OF THIS EVENT [without the likeness of the medal]
good state of preservation