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ONE OF THE LARGEST ENGRAVED FUNERAL PROCESSIONS - ERIK DAHLBERG.
Reference : 32611
(1696)
Exequiae Serenissimi ac Potentiss: Principis ac Dni. Domini Caroli Gustavi Suecorum Gothorum et Wandalorum Regis d. 3. Nouemb. 1660 Holmiæ Celebratæ. Accuraté delineauit E.I. Dahlbergh. (The funeral procession of King Carl X Gustav of Sweden).
(Nürnberg, 1696). The large engraving of the procession through Stockholm being composed of 13 engraved plates joined together, measuring 30x450 cm. (Plates numb. 1-13). Some mostly marginal dampstains, some marginal tears, some brownspots mainly marginal. Upper margin of plate 3 partly gone. Margins strenghtened at verso with brown paper. Some variation to paperquality, but in general in good strong impressions.
The procession gives a panoramic view through Stockholm with the Swedish battleships, salute-firing in the harbour. The engraving was published together with Pufendorf's work, De rebus a Carolo Gustavi gestis...Nürenberg, 1696. The procession was drawn by Erik Dahlberg who was an eyewitness and engraved by different engravers.
