Csécs Teréz: Arrabona - Múzeumi Közlemények 52. (Győr, 2017)

Csécs Teréz: A rajzoló Rómer - A téti Kisfaludy-ház

According to Rómer’s biographers, he found pleasure and enjoyment in drawing. A couple of his drawings that he made while being a student were published, e.g. his two pictures of Bakonybél (Egyházi Tár, Regélő). He mobilized his drawing and engraving skills at illustrating even his academic works (Tudománytár, Győri Történelmi és Régészeti Füzetek). Most of his drawings are held at the legal successor of the National Committee of National Heritage (most recently: Forster Center), but his travel records also contain sketches, elaborate landscape drawings, archaeological maps, ground-plans and drawings of buildings. This publication, based on an exchange of letters between Römer and Ferenc Schedel, identifies Flóris Römer as the drawer of the title page drawing presumably representing the birth house of Sándor Kisfaludy in the second edition of Kisfaludy’s Collected Poems. Flóris Rómer’s letters and the drawing are held in the Manuscript Division of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, while Ferenc Schedel (Toldy)’s letter is held in the Letter Section of the Manuscript Division of the National Széchenyi Library.

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THE DRAWING RÖMER