Cecilia’s Album: Augusta Rütterskjöld – A French Poem

Cecilia’s Album: Augusta Rütterskjöld – A French Poem

Augusta Rütterskjöld was 16 years old when she sat down to copy the following lines on a card for Cecilia Koch’s memory album. IMG-7935 L’amitié vient du ciel habiter ici bas Elle embellit la vie et survit au trèpas (Friendship comes from the heavens and dwells below it embellishes life and survives death) The poem is actually the last stanza of a longer poem, “Même […]

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Following Lotten Westman to Skånelaholm

Following Lotten Westman to Skånelaholm

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Cecilia’s Album: Charlotte Lindström – A true friend?

Cecilia’s Album: Charlotte Lindström – A true friend?

One of Cecilia Koch’s friends gave her a card with a cryptic message. Charlotte Lindström had drawn a picture of a blue flower – a Forget-Me-Not – and included the text: pas une véritable amie (not a true friend). It doesn’t make sense to me. Or did she copy the phrase and mistook par for pas? The phrase, par une véritable amie (by a true […]

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Rosalie Roos’ Bathing Costume

Rosalie Roos’ Bathing Costume

A couple of years ago, Kerstin and I made 1840s bathing costumes. At that time, I remembered a description of bathing costumes in an autobiography by a Swedish young woman. She had visited Charleston, South Carolina in 1854 and described them in a letter to her brother. The other day, I found the book again: Travels in America 1851-1855 by Rosalie Roos (translated and edited […]

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Cecilia’s Album: Amelie Ahlberg (Tottie) Makes a Drawing of Haddon Hall

Cecilia’s Album: Amelie Ahlberg (Tottie) Makes a Drawing of Haddon Hall

  IMG-7920 Amelie Ahlberg made a drawing for Cecilia. I have now learned that these pencil drawings were not original creations but copies of prints. Drawing was a subject in Edgren’s school and copying prints might have been part of the curriculum. I uploaded Amelie’s painting in Google Lens and it was an instant hit. The original print of Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, England, was […]

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