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Summary
Mrs Batowska's travelling library.
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| Artist |
Anonymous (Poland) |
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| Title |
Mrs Batowska's travelling library. |
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| Date | second half of 18th century | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | mahogany wood | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current location |
Landscape Room |
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| Object history |
turn of the 18/19th century: transferred to Dorota Batowska |
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| Notes | The library contains 210 miniature volumes bound in light brown calf leather, ornately embossed and with gilded edges all in lockable double door cabinet. The bookcase is a small compilation of knowledge of history, travel, theater, moral teaching, mathematics, physics, chemistry, physics, economics, botany, poetry and medicine - a total of 148 volumes that every enlightened lady should know and have in its collection. The collection is completed with 62 volumes of French literature - including works by Rousseau, Marmontel, Rabelais, Fontenelle, Florian and Cottin among others. The owner, Countess Dorota Batowska, was a daughter of Aleksander Benedykt Batowski, an officer and Livonian envoy to Four-Year Sejm. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Source/Photographer | Own work | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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