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Mrs Batowska's travelling library (detail).   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Mrs Batowska's travelling library (detail).
label QS:Len,"Mrs Batowska's travelling library (detail)."
label QS:Lpl,"Biblioteczka podróżna Pani Batowskiej (fragment)."
label QS:Lfr,"La bibliothèque itinérante de Mme Batowska (détail)."
Date second half of 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium mahogany wood
medium QS:P186,Q239788
institution QS:P195,Q651469
Current location
Landscape Room
Notes The library contains 210 miniature volumes bound in light brown calf leather, ornately embossed and with gilded edges all in lockable double door cabinet. The bookcase is a small compilation of knowledge of history, travel, theater, moral teaching, mathematics, physics, chemistry, physics, economics, botany, poetry and medicine - a total of 148 volumes that every enlightened lady should know and have in its collection. The collection is completed with 62 volumes of French literature - including works by Rousseau, Marmontel, Rabelais, Fontenelle, Florian and Cottin among others. The owner, Countess Dorota Batowska, was a daughter of Aleksander Benedykt Batowski, an officer and Livonian envoy to Four-Year Sejm.
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