Caption

Soplicowo Farmstead; album of souvenir views of the Nowogródek and Slutsk poviats; collected by Teofil Eugeniusz Boretti. Photograph by Józef Mikolaj Boretti. Subject: rural farmsteads, Soplicowo Nowogródek poviat, Belarus; landscapes; Mickiewicz, Adam 1798–1855 referenced. Technique and materials: photographic print glued with entire surface on lithographed cardboard; photography from nature. Date: 1894. Place of creation: Minsk, Lithuania. Measurements: photographic print height 15.6 cm, width 22.7 cm; album page height 33.0 cm, width 39.8 cm., The image shows a vintage photograph of a rural landscape mounted on a decorative cream-colored mat with floral line drawings. The central photograph displays a countryside scene with gently sloping fields, a dirt track or path, and a group of thatched-roof buildings clustered near the middle ground, backed by a treeline of tall trees. A few animals appear in a field near the foreground. The mat features delicate floral and leafy border illustrations in brown tones around the photograph, with larger flower clusters at the lower left and smaller floral accents at the upper corners. The overall color palette includes sepia tones in the photograph and beige, cream, and brown in the surrounding mat and decorative drawings.

Credit line

Photo12/Liszt Collection

Reference

LZT26A30_272

License type

Rights managed

Available size

69.5Mb (3.1Mb) / 18.0in x 15.0in / 5402 x 4496 (300dpi)

Keywords

Soplicowo Farmstead album souvenir views Nowogródek Slutsk poviats collected Teofil Eugeniusz Boretti Photograph Józef Mikolaj Boretti Subject rural farmsteads Soplicowo Nowogródek poviat Belarus landscapes Mickiewicz Adam 1798–1855 referenced Technique materials photographic print glued entire surface lithographed cardboard photography nature Date 1894 Place creation Minsk Lithuania Measurements photographic print height 15.6 cm width 22.7 cm album page 33.0 cm width 39.8 cm image vintage photograph rural landscape mounted decorative cream-colored mat floral line drawings central photograph displays countryside scene gently sloping fields dirt track path group thatched-roof buildings clustered near middle ground backed treeline tall trees animals field near foreground mat features delicate floral leafy border illustrations brown tones larger flower clusters lower left smaller floral accents upper corners color palette includes sepia tones beige cream brown surrounding mat decorative drawings.