Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1657-1658. The captured svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, becomes angry when a swedish soldier makes to much fun of his disguise. Afterwars he complains to the officer with the pipe at the right. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679) was a real person but the story is fiction. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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