Maps, prints, and photographs

Treasures in the Royal Library

Rawert’s pictorial Journey. 1824.
Department of Maps, Prints, and Photographs, Rawerts samling I, 1a


Holmen’s Church (the royal naval church) 1824. Holmen’s Canal was still a waterway. The canal was filled in 1864 and today it is the street Holmens Kanal	The admiral’s house at Gammelholm 1824. In the background Holmen’s Church and C.F. Hansen’s Christiansborg Palace that burned down in 1884

Factory inspector O.J. Rawert (1786-1851) embarked on numerous journeys, at home as well as abroad, during the years 1805-1849. He frequently drew and painted what he saw. All the pictures, 1,635 in total, have dates and locations and are of great documentary value. Some of the drawings were published in Danske Egne (Danish Regions), which appeared 1819-1823.
Two water-colours pasted above each other on one sheet.

1st picture: 21 x 28.1 cm.
2nd picture: 18.9 x 28.2 cm.
The whole sheet: 55.5 x 39.9 cm.

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