The Falls of the Alta River at Neide Kurkio

A wide waterfall in three branches. Green grass and moss on the surrounding rocks. This is chart XXXIII from Skjöldebrand's "Voyage pittoresque au Cap Nord".

Skjöldebrand was a Swedish nobleman, officer, writer and an artist, who travelled thru Finnmark at the beginning of the 1800s when the Swedish crown was interested in the local copper resources in Alta region. He has drawn and painted several motifs from Alta.