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A flying trip through Norway

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-22908 | No known restrictions on publication.

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Date

1856 - 1857

Artist

Bayard Taylor (1825-1878)

Collection

Library of Congress

Image Link

https://www.loc.gov/item/2004662130/

Description

1 drawing : ink brush and watercolor over graphite underdrawing. | Drawing is design for frontispiece of book. It shows Norwegian fisherman standing with their nets at the edge of a fjord shoreline. The sun comes up over the horizon and two fishermen point across the sea at it. A small village is nestled on the shore underneath the rocky hills that line the fjord. Taylor visited Norway in 1856 and 1857 after the death of his first wife.

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No known restrictions on publication.

Image Credit

Courtesy of the Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-22908

Location

Norway

Country

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People
Seascapes
Fishing
Buildings

Category

People & Society

TWW Comment

Bayard Taylor, an American poet, travel author and diplomat, traveled to Norway and Scandinavia in 1856 and 1857. The book that accompanies these pictures, 'Northern travel : summer and winter pictures of Sweden, Denmark, and Lapland' by Bayard Taylor, can be viewed and downloaded here: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001857793

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