Pubblicato il: 2020-12-31

Zegarki Tyszkiewiczów. Część pierwsza

Jan Zieliński
Załącznik Kulturoznawczy
Sezione: 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.

Regole di citazione

Zieliński, J. (2020). Zegarki Tyszkiewiczów. Część pierwsza. Załącznik Kulturoznawczy, (7), 497–510. https://doi.org/10.21697/zk.2020.7.23

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