Gjøngehøvdingen 069, Poul Steffensen

Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel gjøngehøvdingen by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1657-1658. Svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, and ib abelsøn shakes hands as the later tells that he know and understand that svend poulsen is in love with the lady-in-waiting julie parsberg. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679) was a real person but in abelsøn is fictional. The look of svend poulsen is also fantasy, at there is no known portraits of him. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..