Claes Rålamb

Each figure is drawn in Indian ink with gouache and some gilding on separate sheets of paper sized 14.5 x 10 cm.

The sheets are trimmed and bound together into one volume, all as right sides that alternate top to bottom.

Most leaves have inscriptions on the front or back in Swedish, French, Italian, or Latin, indicating what they represent, and each is numbered in ink on the upper right corner.

This volume is a variant of the so-called muraqqa-album type, which is rather common in libraries in Europe.

They were probably manufactured for European visitors, as precursors of the 19th century 'pittoresque' photos and the present-day folklore postcards.