Published: 2020-12-31

Watches in the Tyszkiewicz Family. Part One

Jan Zieliński
Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2020.7.23

Abstract

A free narrative about several watches – real ones and those described in literature – related with the wealthy Polish-Lithuanian Tyszkiewicz family in the 18th and 19th century. Lengthy digressions touch several aspects of life in that period. One concerns the person of Ludwik Skumin Tyszkiewicz (1748–1775), a talented orator who lived a dangerous life and died young in Paris (his ideas are compared with those of Michał Mniszech, who tried to establish a Jaquet-Droz manufacture of Swiss watches in Warsaw). Another one concerns Karol Wyrwicz, who inherited Tyszkiewicz’s watch, a priest who introduced the style of armorials to his parish books; his name is, incidentally, associated with a new Polish word for a corkscrew. The final part discusses the motive of watches in travel notes from Sweden written by Eustachy Tyszkiewicz. To be followed by Part Two.

Keywords:

corkscrew, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, Michał Mniszech, Sigismund III Vasa as a watchmaker, Stanisław II Augustus Poniatowski, Aleksander Tyszkiewicz, Eustachy Tyszkiewicz, Ludwik Skumin Tyszkiewicz, watches in literature, Karol Wyrwicz

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Zieliński, J. (2020). Watches in the Tyszkiewicz Family. Part One. Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, (7), 497–510. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2020.7.23

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