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The Print Room of the University of Warsaw Library was established in 1818 based on two historical collections: the Royal Collection of Stanisław August and the collection of Stanisław Kostka Potocki. It was the first public collection of prints and drawings in Poland and remains one of the most significant to this day. The collection currently comprises around 50,000 works dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. 

The collection of Netherlandish, Dutch and Flemish works consists of approximately 2,500 prints and Old Master drawings. Among the latter are significant works by artists such as Roelant Savery, Pieter de Molijn and Jan van Goyen, as well as outstanding drawings by Peter Paul Rubens, Jacob Jordaens and Rembrandt van Rijn and his pupils. Alongside artistic drawings, an important group is formed by the surviving architectural drawings from the Tilman van Gameren archive. The collection of prints includes, among others, large groups of prints by Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt and Rubens’s printmakers. 

Małgorzata Biłozór-Salwa, Curator of the Old Master Drawings Collection (June 2026)