Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen ; handbook for travellers . Torg,is the *National Museum (PI. F, 6), erected in 1850-66 from adesign by Stiiler of Berlin, a handsome edifice in the Renaissancestyle, with round-arched Venetian windows and a portal of greenishSwedish marble. Over the portal are medallion-reliefs of six famousSwedish scholars and artists : Fogelberg, the sculptor; Ehrenstrahl,the painter; Linnaeus, the botanist; Tegner, the poet; Vallin, thewriter of hymns; Berzelius, the chemist; and statues of Nicod. 21* 320 Route 50. STOCKHOLM. III. Nati
Norway, Sweden, and Denmark: with excursions to Iceland and Spitzbergen ; handbook for travellers . Torg,is the *National Museum (PI. F, 6), erected in 1850-66 from adesign by Stiiler of Berlin, a handsome edifice in the Renaissancestyle, with round-arched Venetian windows and a portal of greenishSwedish marble. Over the portal are medallion-reliefs of six famousSwedish scholars and artists : Fogelberg, the sculptor; Ehrenstrahl,the painter; Linnaeus, the botanist; Tegner, the poet; Vallin, thewriter of hymns; Berzelius, the chemist; and statues of Nicod. 21* 320 Route 50. STOCKHOLM. III. National Tessin, the architect, and Sergei, the sculptor. In the vestibuleare two bronze groups: Art and Industrial Art by T. Lundberg, onthe left, and Artistic Research, by Okr. Eriksson, on the right. The collections are: on the Ground Floor, the Historical Museumand the Cabinet of Coins; on the First Floor, the Art-IndustrialCollections and the Sculptures; on the Second Floor, the PictureGallery and the Drawings and Engravings. Adm., see p. 308;catalogues in each department, and at the GROUND FLOOR. On entering the vestibule, -where sticks,umbrellas, photographic apparatus, etc. are given up on the left (2 ), -we observe three colossal statues of northern deities, inmarble, by Fogelberg: below, on the right Odin, on the left Thor;above, Baldur. Opposite the entrance is the — *Historical Museum, or Museum of Swedish Antiquities, rangingfrom the earliest times to the present day. It was founded in the17th cent., and much extended by the late director JB. E. the prehistoric section it rivals the National Museum at Copen-hagen (p. 405). The present director is Dr. H. Hildebrand. A glass-door leads into the Vestibule, where a guide by 0. Monleliusmay be bought (25 6.). We turn to the left. The black figures on whiteground indicate the order in which the objects should he examined. Rooms I&II: Flint Period (Stenaldern), a prehistoric era when theuse of
Size: 1908px × 1310px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookpublishernewyorkcscribnerss
