 Hårleman had been responsible for completing the Royal Palace in Stockholm, begun by Nicodemus Tessin the Younger, but he himself was also responsible for the design of the grand entrance to the Sveaborg fortress, the so-called King's Gate and may well have had an input, too, in the design of other key residential buildings there.The height of Sweden's political expansion was marked by the instigation by the crown of the publication Erik Dahlbergh's "Suecia Antiqua et Hodierna" (Ancient and Modern Sweden), published 1660-1716, containing over 400 carefully prepared engravings illustrating the monuments of the kingdom of Sweden.However, only 9 featured Finland, the towns of Torneå and Vyborg, and a few castles, but mostly coats of arms of the Finnish counties, and depicting them as wilderness areas, or as in the case of the image for "South Finland", a craftsman carving a classical column in a wilderness.