[Colour plate] Nordenberg, B.
Utvandring i Öster-Dalarne / Dalecarlier auf Wanderschaft / The wandering Dalecarlians
D. F. Bonniers Förlag. Lith. Af Arnz & Co. I Düsseldorf. [1855] 1 plate + 1 text leaf. Image area 23 x 32,5 cm. The whole sheet 39 x 50 cm. Colour printed lithograph.
A short tear to the text leaf. Clean. No foxing. Very nice condition.
The plate depict the interior of a cottage with departing relatives. It was lithographed after an original by Bengt Nordenberg and published for the work "Bilder ur svenska folklifvet". The plate is accompanied by a descriptive text leaf in swedish, german and english. The captions at the plate are also in three languages. This is a fine example of an early colour printed lithograph of high quality. Arnz & Co. was one of the leading firms in this area. Nordenberg was a genre painter of the Düsseldorf School of painting, depicting folkloristic motifs predominantly in Dalecarlia, Blekinge and Skåne.
Item No: 2773
