wallander josef wilhelm onkel adam (2 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 17 DOUBLE PAGE COLOUR LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES [52pp text] Each with large folded text pages describing the picture in Swedish, French, English and German. Bound in the original red buckram cloth with gilt titles and blind heavy border frame to the covers. Each print tells the story of Swedish life and culture.[Wallander1821-1888] PLEASE EMAIL FOR PHOTOS.

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Unusually bright, handsome copy of this work of Swedish genre art, with each painting telling a story that epitomizes an aspect of Swedish life and culture at the time. Folio, 38.5 by 26 cm. 17 double paged chromolithographic color plates, with long descriptions of each provided on two folding sheets following the particular plate. The descriptions are in given in Swedish, French, German and English, with a large fold-out page containing three columns given over to a description in one of the languages. Subjects include timber-floating, offerings in a country church, hay-making, a wedding dance, flax-dressing, bear hunting, home weaving, grindstone making, young militia men, a servant's fair, etc. Wallander (1821-1888) was also known for portrait and historical paintings. He spent a substantial part of his career as a member of the Swedish art colony based in the German city, Düsseldorf, but he did end in career back in Stockholm. Light wear to the binding.