3-016-953 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Illustrations of the War in Denmark: barrack life of Danish soldiers: Sunday afternoon, 1864. Engraving '...illustrating the barrack life of the Danish soldiers at Sündsmark, in the Isle of Alsen, while they were kept there to be employed in the defence of Sonderburg and Düppel. The sketches, full of life and humour, were taken by Mr. Simon [sic?] Simonsen, our Danish Artist, about a month since - in fact, on Sunday, April 17, the day before the capture of the Düppel redoubts...[Here we see a wag who has borrowed a horse] to act the part of a Prussian General - perhaps Field Marshal Wrangel - riding with the queerest air of mock dignity past the ranks of his admiring soldiers, who salute him as he passes, and who seem to be greatly amused. The Danish soldiers, at all times remarkable for their quiet good-humour, have enjoyed many a joke at the expense of the Prussian military officials, with their pedantry and pride'. From "Illustrated London News", 1864.