Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz on the Ayu-Dag Cliff

The Portrait of Adam Mickiewicz on the Ayu-Dag Cliff is an oil portrait of Adam Mickiewicz by Walenty Wańkowicz created from 1827 to 1828. Since 1925 it has been in the collection of the National Museum, Warsaw. Description Created in the Romanticism style, the portrait depicts Mickiewicz in a Byronic pose leaning on a cliff of the Ayu-Dag Mountain, Crimea overseeing the Black Sea, coated in a burka (a coat of the highlanders of Caucasus). The theme and the title of the portrait come from the first line of the last sonnet Ajudah (translated as "On Juda's Cliff") of The Crimean Sonnets by the poet: Lubię poglądać wsparty na Judahu skale, Jak spienione bałwany to w czarne szeregi Ścisnąwszy się buchają, to jak srebrne śniegi W milijonowych tęczach kołują wspaniale.