Print of steel engraving titled „Chateau Royal de Gripsholm et Ville de Maricfred“.

Artist unknown.

Engraved by unknown.

From M. Ph. Le Bas, Suede et Norwege, Paris, Editeurs Firmin Didot Freres, 1838.

Gripsholm Castle (Swedish: Gripsholms slott) is a castle in Mariefred, Södermanland, Sweden. It is located by lake Mälaren in south central Sweden, in the municipality of Strängnäs, about 60 km west of Stockholm. A fortress was built at the location around 1380 by Bo Jonsson Grip, and belonged to his family until the confiscation of mansions and castles by King Gustav I in 1526. The King tore it down, and built a fortified castle with circular corner towers and a wall, for defensive purposes. Of the original medieval fortress, only the façade of a wall remains.

Mariefred is a locality situated in Strängnäs Municipality, Södermanland County, Sweden. The name is derived from that of the former Carthusian monastery here, Mariefred Charterhouse, and means "Peace of Mary" (the former name was Gripsholm). It lies roughly 65 kilometres west of Stockholm. Mariefred, despite its small population, is for historical reasons often still referred to as a city. Statistics Sweden, however, only counts localities with more than 10,000 inhabitants as cities. The Royal Gripsholm Castle is located in the town. The old barn of Gripsholm Castle is now a centre for fine arts printmaking, Grafikens Hus ("House of Graphics"). The East Södermanland Railway has a railway museum here with one of the finest collections of 600 mm narrow-gauge passenger railcars anywhere. Kurt Tucholsky is buried in the town cemetery.

Approx. image size 14, 2 x 9, 2/20, 2 x 12, 3 cm.Condition: medium.

Condition: medium.