The Old Fortress of Corfu, a pencil sketch by Juliusz Słowacki from his Eastern Notebook, signed: “Corfou – 7 Sept. 1836” (the Russian State Library in Moscow)
Agamemnon’s Tomb in Myconos, a pencil sketch by Juliusz Słowacki from his Eastern Notebook (the Russian State Library in Moscow)
The drawing shows the entry to the tomb and above it, in a triangular opening, the young oak tree depicted in Słowacki’s poem Agamemnon’s Tomb
Juliusz Słowacki
Agamemnon's Tomb
[…] Over the tomb door, in a granite grotto,
an oak tree grows there between
the stones, planted by a pigeon or a sparrow,
And its black leaves go green,
And does not let the light into the dark tomb;
I plucked one leaf from a black bush in bloom…
Zenon Brzozowski on the Hill of the Muses in Athens, a pencil sketch by Juliusz Słowacki from his Eastern Notebook (the Russian State Library in Moscow)
Zenon Brzozowski (1806-1887) was a landowner from Podole and Słowacki’s travel companion
Juliusz Słowacki, a drawing by Ksawery Jan Kaniewski, 1836, reproduced in the “Sphinx” magazine, 1909
