Lot Essay
Erik Hovsted kindly identified the views, and suggested that Holm might have been commissioned by Baron Schimmelmann to make drawings of the family properties, which included land in the West Indies
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Heinrich Gustav Ferdinand Holm (1803-1861)
Views of Palaces and Parks in and around CopenhagenBaron Schimmelmann's Palace and his Garden, Copenhagen from Frederiksberg Castle, the Memorial Fountain in Klampenborg in Baron Schimmelmann's summer Residence, a Castle by a Lake and a Building in the West Indies
two signed 'H.G.F. Helm fec.', one dated 'Copenhagen 1823';black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
193 x 264mm. and smaller (6)
Views of Palaces and Parks in and around CopenhagenBaron Schimmelmann's Palace and his Garden, Copenhagen from Frederiksberg Castle, the Memorial Fountain in Klampenborg in Baron Schimmelmann's summer Residence, a Castle by a Lake and a Building in the West Indies
two signed 'H.G.F. Helm fec.', one dated 'Copenhagen 1823';black chalk, pen and brown ink, brown wash
193 x 264mm. and smaller (6)