Abstract
The National Museum in Stockholm owns a most remarkable collection of architectural drawings, approximately twenty thousand in number. The bulk was gathered in the eighteenth century on study trips to France and Italy by three Swedish architects: Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, Carl Harleman, and Count Johan Cronstedt.1 This group is supplemented by two smaller collections, likewise in the custody of the National Museum and named after the former owners, d'Anckarvard and Celsing. Together the drawings fall into different categories: sketches and projects by Tessin, Harleman, and Cronstedt; original drawings by their famous contemporaries in France such as Le Notre, Le Brun, and Audran; innumerable copies by these Swedish architects after projects by the outstanding architects of their days, among them the maquettes of Bernini's drawings for the Louvre,2 copies after what seems a Bernini project for the Spanish Stairs,3 and after Juvara; and surveys of exemplary buildings in France and Italy. Intermingled wi...
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