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{{Short description|Painting by Johan Thomas Lundbye}}
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| other_title_1 = En gravhøj fra oldtiden ved Raklev på Refsnæs
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| image = Lundbye, Johan Thomas - En gravhøj fra oldtiden ved Raklev på Refsnæs.jpg
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| artist =   [[Johan Thomas Lundbye]]
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| year =  {{start date|1839}}
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| medium = 78967 persay
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| museum =   [[Thorvaldsens Museum]]
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| website =   {{URL|http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/samlingerne/vaerk/B255}}
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'''''An Ancient Burial Mound by Raklev on Refsnæs''''' is a Danish landscape painting by [[Johan Thomas Lundbye]] from 1839.<ref>{{cite book |last=Stougaard-Nielsen |first=Jakob |editor1-last=Lindskog |editor1-first=Annika |editor2-last=Stougaard-Nielsen |editor2-first=Jakob |title=Introduction to Nordic Cultures |date=17 April 2020 |publisher=UCL Press |isbn=978-1-78735-399-2 |page=173 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mEfmDwAAQBAJ |access-date=1 February 2024 |language=en |chapter=Nordic Nature: From Romantic Nationalism to the Anthropocene}}</ref> The painting is executed in the national romantic tradition, as advocated by [[Niels Laurits Høyen]].
In the foreground is the painting's central motif, a [[tumulus]]. The painting uses this very prominent figure, a giant mound that pushes the image background back, to give great depth to the painting.
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== External links ==
* [http://www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk/samlingerne/vaerk/B255 www.thorvaldsensmuseum.dk]
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[[Category:1839 paintings]]
[[Category:Paintings in Copenhagen]]
[[Category:Dolmens]]
[[Category:Romantic art]]
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