Photo Record
Images
Metadata
Object Identification Number |
2007.050.098 |
Object Name |
Print, Photographic |
Donor |
Royal Danish Embassy |
Description |
Black and white photograph of one of the Jelling Stones in Denmark. The photograph shows the giant carved stone in the foreground outside with what appears to be a house and roof in the background to the viewer left and a tree to the viewer right. There were two labels formerly attached to the back are now in the accession file. The first reads: "CONSULATE GENERAL OF DENMARK / DANISH INFORMATION OFFICE / 280 Park Avenue New York, N.Y. 100017 / Address correction requested / Return postage guaranteed" inked over the top and a price list and "JELLING RUNIC STONE - DENMARK" faded beneath it. The second reads: "DENMARK/HISTORY [underlined] / The larger of the two Jelling stones North- / West of Vejle, East Jutland bears the in- / scription: / "King Harald caused these mounds to be / "raised to Gorm his father and to Thyra / "his mother; the Harald who won for him- / "self all Denmark and Norway and made the / "Danes Christians. / The language is Old Danish, not yet very / differentiated from Norwegian and Swedish. / The script is later Runic. The stone is / more than 1,000 years old. It is richly / ornamented and was doubtless coloured. The / carver may have been English. / (Harald Bluetooth, c. 985). / 100/24/06/66". There are four stamps on the back. The are three down the lower right side. The first reads: "Please return to / DANISH INFORMATION / OFFICE / 280 Park Avenue / New York, N. Y. 10017". The second in purpled ink, reads, "COPYRIGHT / ROYAL DANISH MINISTRY / FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS / Press Department / Copenhagen - Denmark". The third, in red, is: "COPYRIGHT / INGA AISTRUP FOTO / FREDENSVEJ 7, VEDBÆK, DENMARK". "SJ 761.1" is stamped to the left of the other red one. Handwriting along the top includes "RUNES", "D4", and "CH VII p. 70". |
Print Size |
8 x 10 |
Creation Date |
ca. 1960 |
Studio |
Inga Aistrup Foto |
Place of Creation |
Denmark/Jutland/East Jutland/Vejle/Jelling |
Associated People |
Aistrup, Inga King of Denmark Harald Bluetooth Bluetooth, Harald Gorm Thyra |
Search Terms |
Royal Danish Embassy Royal Danish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Danish Information Office Consulate General of Denmark Inga Aistrup Foto Aistrup, Inga Denmark, Jutland Jylland Vejle, East Jutland King of Denmark Harald Bluetooth Bluetooth, Harald Gorm Thyra Christianity Old Danish runes Runic Danish King of Denmark Danish royalty Jelling Stones |
Date Received by Museum |
11/30/2007 |
Provenance |
This photograph belonged to and was donated by the Royal Danish Embassy. It shows one of the Jelling Stones in Denmark, which date from the 10th century and were commissioned by King Harald Bluetooth in honor of his father Gorm and mother Thyra. |
Images |
087\2007050098.JPG |
Accession number |
2007.050 |