Most of Norblin’s paintings in rococo style, showing the games of the magnate in the Powązki park, come from the 1880s. These include canvases depicting games on ice, social scenes at the monument or by the lake, breakfasts, swings, women bathing in the park, i.e. the whole set of ways of spending free time invented by Princess Izabela Czartoryska. The paintings from this series (for example, 1785’s Bathing in the Park) strongly refer to the work of Watteau, Fragonard or Pater, not only because of the subject matter, but also because of the composition and light Rococo colours.
The increased intensity of defensive fighting to maintain a sovereign Poland at the beginning of the 1890s changed the subject matter of the artist's paintings for some time (he temporarily moved to Warsaw). Genre scenes documenting the life of the city started to appear in his work: fairs (for example Praga Market, ca. 1791), circus advertisements, random incidents. From this period comes another series of drawings depicting types of human figures, mainly townswomen, villagers, merchandisers, children and beggars.
One should put special emphasis on the gallery of figures representing the Polish nobility at the Sejm: caricatured drunks, screamers and plebeians. Several drawings illustrating the sessions of the Sejm in Bronice, and finally the adoption of the Constitution on 3rd May 1791, were also preserved. While remaining in service with the Czartoryski family, Norblin had the opportunity to meet outstanding personalities of the Polish Enlightenment period such as Hugo Kołłątaj, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Marshal of the Sejm Stanisław Małachowski or Ignacy Potocki – together with Father Adam Czartoryski, they took part in secret work on the drafts of the Constitution. The artist's interest in the matters of state was continued in his later drawings, from 1794, depicting scenes from the Kościuszko Insurrection: insurgent fights, the Polish army, the Battle of Maciejowice, soldiers. One of his most famous paintings, The Hanging of Traitors in the Old Town Square on 9th May 1794, comes from this year.
In 1794, Powązki was completely destroyed. A year later Poland lost its independence and Warsaw ceased to be such a lively cultural and artistic capital. Norblin moved to the Czartoryski family's residence in Puławy, where, after its reconstruction and the creation of a new magnificent English-style garden by Izabela Czartoryska, he could again return to the subjects he put on hold. However, the drawings of the Puławy landscapes are characterised by more content than the earlier ones depicting Arkadia or Powązki and being merely an expression of ‘picturesqueness’. They also concern Poland's affairs (for example, the drawing A Child Sleeping at the Monument of the Past) – after the fall of the state, Puławy became a centre of patriotic thought.