ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that even if the copies, notes and drawings Hans Lilienskiold brought home build on an idea about originals – the objects and artworks he had seen in the places he visited – they acquired their more specific meaning from early modern notions of copiousness or abundance. Lilienskiold was born in 1650 in a wealthy bourgeois family in Bergen, Norway’s then-largest town. The ars apodemica, a genre nearly forgotten until researched by the ethnologist Justin Stagl in the 1980s, consisted of manuals in the art of prudent travelling. In 1668, Hans Lilienskiold and his younger brother Ernst Jonas Bencard embarked on their Grand Tour through Europe. When he returned to his hometown Bergen more than three years later, Hans brought with him a trove of notes and drawings, which later was worked into a beautifully ornamented travel diary in two volumes.
