etos wrote: > "pb" <per.bragstad@c2i.net> wrote in message > news:f0bMd.800$4c.106046@juliett.dax.net... > >>"Rob Gray" <Slateman@epix.net> skrev i melding >>news:9xWLd.232$3b.13784@news1.epix.net... >> >>>Can anyone tell me what the writing on the document linked below means >>>in English? Also, does anyone know about when/where it was made? >>> >>>Thank you in advance for any ideas. >>> >>> >>>http://home.epix.net/~robgray/temp/print1.jpg >>>Rob >>>USA >> >>There are several Norwegian folklore painters in the first half of the >>19th >>century, mostly educated in the German area. My best guess is Johannes >>Flintoe. Three major books treating the Norwegian folk costumes (by >>J.F.L.Dreier, G.C.C.W.Prahl and Chr. Toensberg) were published these >>years. >>Your picture may originate from one of them. The German language merely >>indicates the cultural/scientific sphere of interest of the Norwegian >>intelligentia at that time (England was yet to be discovered ;-)). > > > The printout is from "Johannes Senn, Norske Nationale Klædesdragter, > Kiøbenhavn 1812-1815". > > eirik > > Eirik, Thank you for the information! Rob Gray