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6209.01.01 Bust of Queen Victoria with ruins of Borgholm Slott beyond Öland Sweden Keywords: Queen Victoria 1862 to 1930 Bust by Axel Walelf and Arthur Sondln in red granite from Väster Vik and dated 1938 Borgholm Castle Johan III employed the architect Dominicus Pahr to design a grand new Renaissance palace on the site of the original medieval fortress It was damaged in the Kalmar War and when Karl X Gustav became king he employed Nicodemus Tessin the Elder to restore it but Karl s early death resulted in these plans never being finished Swedish Oland island castle citadel military architecture massive big large tower stone wall masonry roofless shell gutted likeness sculpture head and shoulders looking out over monument memorial building lgpl
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Photographer: Leslie Garland
Collection: Sweden
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Upload Date: 2005-07-26 15:59:10
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Bust of Queen Victoria with ruins of Borgholm Slott beyond

Öland Sweden
Keywords: Queen Victoria 1862 to 1930 Bust by Axel Walelf and Arthur Sondln in red granite from Väster Vik and dated 1938 Borgholm Castle Johan III employed the architect Dominicus Pahr to design a grand new Renaissance palace on the site of the original medieval fortress It was damaged in the Kalmar War and when Karl X Gustav became king he employed Nicodemus Tessin the Elder to restore it but Karl s early death resulted in these plans never being finished Swedish Oland island castle citadel military architecture massive big large tower stone wall masonry roofless shell gutted likeness sculpture head and shoulders looking out over monument memorial building lgpl