Midsommardagen på Ladugårdsgärdet

Heland, Martin Rudolf (1765 or 1766-1814)

Martin, Elias (1739-1818) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Height:

15.0 cm  (5 15/16 in.)

Width:

24.0 cm  (9 7/16 in.)

Technique / Medium:

watercolor contour etching combined with mezzotint

Additional titles

Description

Etching shows a crowd of figures (c. 30 performers, c. 50 non-performers) celebrating Midsummer's Day with music, dancing and drinking. Four soldiers are shown, one playing triangle, one playing clarinet, one playing violoncello, and the last playing 2 cylindrical drums with sticks.

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Triangle [3005]
Clarinet [3836]
Violoncello [3582]
Cylindrical drum [2532] (two, with two sticks)

Image URLs

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Notes

'"Martius Schola," no. 65, ex. .' --on engraving cf Martin, Elias, his school. Martin, Elias (Swedish painter and printmaker, 1739-1818) --Getty ULAN.

RIdIM record id

802