[JANUARY Uprising] 19th century A. Huttula, Graphics Massacre on Castle Square on 8 April 1861, National Mourning

Engraving related to the history of the January Uprising. On April 8, in Castle Square, Russians fired on a defenseless crowd during a patriotic demonstration. The exact number of victims is unknown and was kept secret by the Russian authorities so as not to cause panic. The number of several hundred dead and several thousand wounded is sometimes cited. One of the fatally wounded was student Michal Landy, who is probably portrayed in this graphic in the central part of the picture.
Print, paper
Size 36, 7 x 27, engraving 23 x 16, 2
Condition as in photos
The author is A. Huttula (probably Anton Friedrich Huttula). The work was created around 1870.
A. Huttula was a German illustrator active around 1852 in Leipzig. He is known, among other things, for his drawing for a woodcut depicting the painter Johann Jacob Kirchhoff, published by E. Kretzschmar, and for several other works, including a joint publication with C.A. Walther in 1853.