woodcut, paper 25 x 23 cm in light frame, signed and dated on plate.
Reproduced and described in "Andriolli in Art and Social Life", H.Piątkowski and H.Dobrzycki, Warsaw 1904, p.129
Michał Elwiro Andriolli - metrically Elwiro Michał Andriolli[1][2][3] (born November 14[4][5] 1836 in Vilnius, died August 23, 1893 in Nałęczów) - Polish illustrator, cartoonist and painter, representative of Romanticism.He was a popular book illustrator who worked with Warsaw, Paris and London publishers. Among the most famous works of Polish and foreign literature illustrated by Andriolli, we should mention such works as J.I. Kraszewski's The Old Tale, J. Slowacki's Lilla Weneda, E. Orzeszkowa's Meir Ezofowicz, W. Syrokomla's Born Jan Dęboróg, Memoirs of a Quaestor I. Chodźko, Marya by A. Malczewski and The Last of the Mohicans by J.F. Cooper, Legend of the Ages by W. Hugo or Romeo and Juliet by W. Shakespeare. The artist worked extensively on paintings for the works of Adam Mickiewicz, being the author, among others, of the most famous and so far most popular illustrations for Pan Tadeusz.
