The Ossoliński National Institute collection stock contains an anonymous drawing presenting, as examinations indicate, an unknown and missing work by Hartmann Witwer, Lvivian classicist sculptor. In the first quarter of the 18th century he produced many sculptural decorations of Lviv burgher tenement houses, monuments place in public space, and first and foremost numerous sepulchral pieces of art. This trend also includes a monument of Joseph Thimi, who passed away in 1810, now Budapest, and commemorated there. The drawing is a mere iconographic source to an unknown work from the year 1812. Antiquing and material differentiation sets the sepulchral monument among Witwer’s most excellent pieces of art, and the drawing, being inventory in its form, makes it an extremely important iconographic source.
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