Famous work · not an exact-location map point
Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to ransom
Real-world connection
No single real-world viewpoint
A 19th-century reconstruction of a 1361 event (the sack of Visby); not a topographic viewpoint the painter worked from.
- Date
- 1882-01-01
- Real-world link
- Real-world connection
Where the original is now
Nationalmuseum
In the collection of Nationalmuseum
On-view status is not live-verified — check the museum before visiting.
Sources
- Nationalmuseum, Stockholm — collection record for Carl Gustaf Hellqvist, ‘Valdemar Atterdag brandskattar Visby 1361’ (‘Valdemar Atterdag holding Visby to Ransom’), inv. NM 1338; 1882, oil on canvas, 200 × 330 cm (nationalmuseum.se)
- Nationalmuseum collection catalogue; John Rosenberg, ‘Carl Gustaf Hellqvist’ literature on Swedish 19th-century history painting