Prints / Views & Topography

[Plate] Thersner, Ulrik / Thersner, Thora

Söder-Tuna.

[Stockholm] Tr. hos Spong. [1840s] Image area 20 x 32 cm. Including margins 37 x 55 cm.

A water stain in the lower margin. Some short tears and creases to the margins.

The plate show the estate Söder-Tuna in the province of Södermanland just south of Stockholm - in its natural setting. The lithograph is a part of the monumental topographical work "Fordna och närvarande Sverige" (Ancient and present Sweden) wnich was published 1817-1867 in 12 volumes containing 367 plates in all. Söder-Tuna was published in the fourth volume - Södermanland. Besides "Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna" of 1715, "Fordna och närvarande Sverige" is the most ambitious topographical work ever published in Sweden.

Item No: 1021