View of the castle in Łańcut from the east

View of Łańcut Castle from the east The photograph shows the elevations of the seventeenth-century east wing and the south-east tower of Łańcut Castle, and the view of the Italian Garden in front of them, laid out around 1900. The photograph was taken from the north-eastern side. The layout of the paths and flower beds, as well as the fountain pool are visible in the garden. In the middle stands a marble sculptural group Bacchus on a Panther. In addition, the garden is decorated with stone and ceramic vases with blooming flowers. In the background, a jardiniere on a marble base, filled with flowers, on its sides, shrubs trimmed in the form of cones. Four marble carved heads are visible under the windows of the castle: Isis, Hermes Propylæus, Faustina the Younger and Marcus Aurelius set on granite pillars, set amidst a trimmed arborvitae hedge. The lower elevation of the castle wing and the south-east tower are covered with vines. The corner between the castle façade and the tower is filled with a cluster of shrubs. There are four women working in the garden, grouped near the fountain, and piles of planks (?) are deposited here The photograph was taken by Dr Józef Piotrowski (1873–1939), a Lviv art historian. From 1 June 1920 to 1929, he served as a conservator at the Lviv Voivodeship Office (see Piotr Lasek, Inwentaryzacja zabytków architektury w lwowskim okręgu konserwatorskim 1920-1939. Szkice z dziejów, Warsaw: Instytut Sztuki PAN, 2020, pp. 32–62). He was the author of the study Zamek w Łańcucie. Zwięzły opis dziejów i zbiorów and the author of photographic documentation of the Łańcut Castle, its interiors and collections, today owned by the Łańcut Castle Museum (among others, albums, volumes I-X, Lviv 1936) and the Institute of Art of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw (albums, volumes I-IX, Lviv 1929). Barbara Trojnar