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Detail of a Viking tapestry from Skog Church, Halsingland, Sweden, 12th century. Artist

Detail of a Viking tapestry from Skog Church, Halsingland, Sweden, 12th century. Tapestry detail illustrating the struggle between Christianity and paganism. The three figures to the right are ringing bells to frighten away evil spirits and pagan gods. From the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm

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A Studio Idyll: the Artists Wife and their Daughter Suzanne, 1885 (1945). Artist: Carl Larsson

A Studio Idyll: the Artist's Wife and their Daughter Suzanne, 1885 (1945). Swedish artist Carl Larsson (1853-1919) married Karin Bergoo (1859-1928), an artist and designer, in 1883. Suzanne, the eldest of their eight children, was born in 1884. Found in the collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden. A print from Konstnarsforbundets Historia I by Sixten Strombom, Stockholm, 1945

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A. E. Nordenskiold (Swedish geologist and mineralogist, born Finland, 1832-1901), c. 1880

A. E. Nordenskiold (Swedish geologist and mineralogist, born Finland, 1832-1901), c. 1880. Woodburytype, from the periodical "Galerie Contemporaine Litteraire, Artistique" (1880), volume 1

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