12.2 Vel'ká Lomnica with the High Tatras

Pencil, watercolour on paper, 342 x 486 mm
Inscribed at bottom left: 16; at bottom middle: Lomnitz mit d. Karpathen; at bottom right: 16
Inscribed on the backing at bottom left: Nagy-Lomnitz a Kárpátokkal
MTA Könyvtára, Kézirattár, Ms 4409/143

Map: II

Vel'ká Lomnica / Kakaslomnic / Großlomnitz is one of the oldest and most famous Tatran settlements. It has one single street that is flanked by a line of houses; one frequently comes upon this pattern of settlement in the sub-Tatran rural region. In the village we can visit the lower Berzeviczy mansion, which was built in the middle of a vast garden between the Poprad river and the main road. The present Renaissance mansion was built on the site of the old house. Gergely Berzeviczy (1763-1822), a renowned Hungarian economist of the era and member of the Göttingen Learned Society, was born in this mansion. - Bibliography: Szepesi, Szombathy 1986