Large Swedish Folk Art Print Linen Wall Hanging: C1950s translation 19th Century Wall Paintings, Sweden 18th century silk brocade 195 x 195cm

195 x 195cm

The design is heavily influenced by late 18th and early 19th-century Greek and Roman revivals

The dark hull with a row of painted "ports" (the blue squares at the stern) is a style often seen in historical depictions of Royal Navy frigates or East India Company merchant ships

and here we see the strange beast pawing the ground

Usually covered with a very thin glass globe to protect its contents

Large Swedish Folk Art Print Linen Wall Hanging: C1950s translation 19th Century Wall Paintings, Sweden 18th century silk brocade 195 x 195cmItem Details. Block printed and stencilled onto a natural linen C1957 this wonderful Swedish Folk Art wall hanging designed and printed by the Jobs workshop after the Dalmlningar valley wall painting by Hjelt Per Persson, Lima, Leksand, ca 1854. This hanging depicts the birth of Jesus with his parents wearing 18th century costume and The Three Kings arriving on horseback. The valley paintings known as Kurbits or Dalia Kurbits mostly depicted biblical