Jolene (Split Landscape Postcard Flexis)
An extraordinary specialty even in Polish Postcard Flexis are the splitted versions, one of which is presented here.
The present set of two flexi postcards shows some excerpts of an extremely detailled landscape painting by Benardo Bellotto of the Polish city Warsaw as seen from the side of Prague at around 1770.
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Release Notes
- Label / Publishers: - unknown -
- though the original postcards seem to be produced for the the Royal Castle Musuem in Warsaw
- Format: set of 2 x flexi in postcard format
- Released: most likely in the late 1980s or early 1990s
- Place of Release: Poland
Remarks
- These split motive postcards usually come in a set of two,
- thus mostly including both parts of the full motive.
- Not so here, however.
- Both postcards of a set regularly feature the same song on the pictured front.
- The back of the two cards here is also identical and - unlike the front picture -
- the landscape prints on the lower parts do not consist of different excerpts from the original veduta
- Both cards come with a printed sticker saying:
- JOLENE
- SISTERS OF MERCY
- The most other notes on the back of the postcards come in Polish and French language:
- Bernardo Bellotto
- ....................
- Widok Warszawy od Strony Pragi , 1770 (fragment)
- Zamek Królewski w Warszawie
- VUE GÉNÉRALE DE VAROVIE PRISE DU COTÉ DE PRAGA, 1770 (fragment)
- Le CHATEAU ROYAL de Varsovie
- or in English:
- View of Warsaw from the side of Prague, 1770 (fragment)
- The ROYAL CASTLE in Warsaw
- for. A. Ring i B. Tropilo; proj. A. Napiórkowski & Z. Tomaszewska
The creator of the original picture, Bernardo Bellotto (Canaletto the Younger), should not be mixed up with his uncle and teacher Giovanni Antonio Canal (Canaletto) who was the first to be known under the mononym "Canaletto" and noamed so because a) he was the son of the Italian painter Bernardo Canal and also due to the fact b) that his oeuvre - apart from various London scenes, where he lived for some years - consisted widely of vedute showing his birthtown Venice with its plenty canals. His nephew Bernardo Bellotto followed the footsteps of his uncle and also started using his name "Canaletto", though his work is focussed mainly on Rome, Dresden, Vienna and Warsaw.
Track
Side 1 (front side) - Jolene
Additional Pictures
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