The Shire
11.8 x 58.5 cm, 1994
The Map of Tolkien's Middle-Earth, by Brian SIBLEY
HarperCollinsPublishers, Sept. 1994
This painting is based on an old postcard I found one day at a flea market. Undoubtedly turn-of-the-century; I would imagine Symbolist or Victorian. The postcard was in sepia... I wonder if the original was in colour... and if I got them right.
Actually, I have found out in the meantime, courtesy of a laudably patriotic Swede via the guestbook...
The painting is called "The Cloud", by Prince Eugen of Sweden, a brother of the late King of Sweden, Gustaf V.
The original painting hangs in "Valdermarsudde" in Stockholm.
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