Ernst Josephson
Stockholm 1851 - 1906
The Viking (Vikingen), 1895
signed Ernst Josephson (lower right) and titled VIKINGEN (lower left)
pen and brown ink on laid paper watermarked 'lessebo'
38.2 x 23.8 cm
15 x 9 3/8 in
The present drawing relates to Ernst Josephson’s extensive suite of illustrations to Erik Gustaf Geijer’s “Skaldestycken” (Poems). An excerpt pasted to the former backing board—citing the 1966 Svalans Lyrikklubb / Albert Bonniers Förlag edition—records that in 1940 “close to seventy” sheets from this series were still in the possession of the Stockholm…