Dessiné et gravé… Francuskie drzeworyty w polskich tygodnikach ilustrowanych XIX w. na przykładzie tygodnika „Wędrowiec” (część I)

The article presents fourteen wood engravings made by French artists, published in Warsaw weekly magazine “Wedrowiec” in the second half of the nineteenth century. The artists included Emile Bayard, Antoine V. Bertrand, Henri P. Blanchard, Adolphe Gusmand, Henry T. Hildibrand, Jules Huyot, Adolphe-Francois Pannemaker and Edouard Riou. A formal analysis includes titles and authors of illustrations, the size, location and functions of wood engravings in the journal, their themes and motives. An artistic analysis covers scene arrangement, the components of the foreground and the background, the dynamics of the pictures, the details of human figures and architecture, a general atmosphere of illustrations, their styles and artistic techniques used. In an artistic reflection, Heinrich Wollflin’s findings on style in art were used as well as Erwin Panofsky’s iconographic test method and some elements from the Roman Ingarden’s picture theory.