From Zenon Przesmycki’s Norwidian archive (3). Descriptions of Norwid’s drawings from Wiktor Gomulicki’s collection (transl. by Tadeusz Karłowicz)

Abstract

The article brings an edition of two Zenon Przesmycki's documents (a typescript and a manuscript) that are kept in the collection of the National Library. They contain descriptions of Norwid's artistic works that once belonged to Wiktor Gomulicki. Their greater part is now considered to be lost. The first of these documents gives a list of 20 artistic works by Norwid (drawings, engravings, and one photography of a drawing) that about 1904 belonged to Gomulicki, and the other one – descriptions of 40 Norwid's drawings bought by Wanda and Aleksander Naumann from Wiktor Gomulicki in 1916. The documents allow reconstructing the Norwidian collection the author of Wspomnienia niebieskiego mundurka had gathered, and which then became dispersed, and one part of which, preserved till today, is constituted by works bought by the famous collector, Dominik Witke-Jeżewski; now in the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw.

The editorial study of Przesmycki's texts is preceded by introductory remarks, in which a characteristic of Wiktor Gomulicki's collection, the circumstances of gathering it, and then of its dispersion are given.