Study for the illustration “Kone fra Tassiusark” (Wife from Tassiusark) for the 1906 book, Greenland: Illustrated Description of the Travels of the Danish Literary Greenland Expeditions, Journeys in Melville Bay and Stay among the World’s Most Northerly Inhabitants, by Ludvig Mylius-Erichsen and Harald Moltke
Harald Viggo Moltke, Danish, 1871 - 1960
1904
Watercolor on paper
Sheet: 9 7/8 × 9 in. (25.1 × 22.9 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Bequest of Evelyn Stefansson Nef
2014.17.3
Geography
Place Made: Denmark, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Watercolor
Research Area
Watercolor
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, lower right, in blue watercolor: HARALD MOLTKE / TASSiUSARK. 1904
Provenance
Evelyn Stefansson Nef (1913-2009); bequeathed to present collection, 2009; catalogued 2014.
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