Frederiksborg Castle—Gate-Tower

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View of the gate-tower at Frederiksborg Castle with villagers in the foreground — The gate-tower at Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark.

Artist

Name:: Mayer, Auguste Etienne François
Dates:: 1805-1890
Country:: France

Illustration

Subject:: Buildings & monuments
Technique:: Lithograph
Lithographer:: Mayer, Auguste Etienne François
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Voyages en Scandinavie, en Laponie, au Spitzberg et aux Feröe (Atlas, vol. 1)
Author(s):: Gaimard, Joseph Paul (under the direction of)
Publisher:: Paris: Arthus-Bertrand, n.d. [1852]

Description

View of the gate-tower at Frederiksborg Castle with people in the foreground getting busy around carts and wheelbarrows, or simply coming and going through the gate. The tower is an early seventeenth-century brick building.
The caption reads in the original French: Château de Frederiksborg, La grosse tour. Danemark.

Keywords: 1850s, 19th century, castle, Denmark, Europe, Frederiksborg, gate, tower