Bank of Poland, Warsaw - Original Engraving after Challamel - c. 1840

Original antique steel engraving, Banque de Pologne à Varsovie / Banco de Polonia en Varsovia, with the great rotunda building and its arcades and the square busy with riders, strollers and a carriage. Lettered at the foot, Challamel del., Lemaitre direxit and the engraver's signature; at the head, Pologne - Polonia, no. 40.

Medium: Steel engraving.
Artist / after: Challamel.
Engraver: Cholet.
Date: Circa 1840.
Source: Panorama Universal, the Spanish edition of L'Univers pittoresque; Poland section.
Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.3 in (20.5 x 13.5 cm).
Condition: Laid down on paper; oxidation staining (foxing) spread over the whole sheet, some of it within the image.