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Engraved panorama on multiple sheets joined together, later hand-coloring. Approx. 28x450 cm (11x177") plus margins.

Spectacular and very long panoramic view of the monumental funeral procession held for Charles X Gustav, also known as Carl Gustav, King of Sweden from 1654 until his death in 1660. After the painting by Erik Dahlberg, the engraver is not known. Probably from the Latin edition of Samuel Pufendorf's "De Rebus a Carolo Gustavo" published in 1696. A German language edition was published in 1697. The writing of this official history of the Swedish wars with Poland and Denmark from 1655 to 1660 was entrusted by king Charles XI to Samuel Pufendorf, a German historian and expert on international law, who held the first chair of history at the new university of Lund (1668-1676) and was the official Historiographer of the Realm from 1676 until 1689.