Illustration by poul steffensen from the danish novel dronningens vagtmester by carit etlar which takes place during the dano-swedish war in 1658-1660. Endpiece of chapter 18 with the coat of arms of hannibal sehested. Svend poulsen, gøngehøvdingen, goes to isefjord where he hears how the nobleman hannibal sehesteds sends his collected food with a ship to copenhagen under his own coat of arms. Svend poulsen criticises him but hannibal sehested explains that he has enemies and thus lean on svend poulsen. He adds that someday he may be able to help svend poulsen himself. Svend poulsen (app. 1610 - app. 1679) and hannibal sehested (1609-1666) were real persons but the story is fiction. Date: Original illustration from the 1890s, here reprint from 1909..
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