Johan Gustaf Sandberg, Swedish
Swedes Being Taught How To Dab, 1836
Oil on canvas
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Johan Gustaf Sandberg, Swedish
Swedes Being Taught How To Dab, 1836
Oil on canvas
Info and links that point to more info about this artist can be found at his Wikipedia page (Google translated Swedish Wikipedia page has more)
Perhaps more about him can be found here (if truncated, can be read in full for free on Fridays).
/// The new minister’s left in the lurch.
Heavy snowfall had weakened his church.
From the roof to the apse
it was close to collapse,
Now he preaches outside from a perch.
/// Pastor’s sermon discusses their loss,
and describes most possessions as dross.
“Yet one item matters,
so climb up those ladders
and bring back here our most holy cross.”
/// Sven, the daredevil couldn’t be gladder
to be chosen to climb up the ladder,
on the snow-weakened roof.
Aquavit, (90 proof),
Sven had quaffed, then he voided his bladder.
/// Fueled with courage (and alcohol too),
up the wooden rungs our hero flew.
With the cross in a sack
which Sven flung ‘cross his back,
he came down, but his fingers were blue.