Avbildning i gouache föreställande trumpetfana tagen som trofé av svenska armén.

Hedberg, Kjell

In 1677, Karl XI decided to portray all the fanas and stands won as trophies in war. The purpose was to preserve the memory of these signs of victory for the afterworld even if the objects themselves were to be destroyed by age. Erik Dahlberg was commissioned to use an artist. It became Olof Hoffman who came to devote the rest of his life to painting off all the thousands of fanas and stands kept in the Arsenal. He died in the middle of the Great Nordic War in 1709. Two hundred years later, the entire trophy collection was temporarily in the Nordic Museum, while the Riddarholm Church, where they were normally kept, was renovated. John Petrelli, the archivist of war, then, looked after the entire collection and hired a number of artists to depict the fanas created after Olof Hoffman’s death or which Petrelli felt had been misrepresented. The depictions are bound in 30 volumes, belonging to the archives of the War Archives, but are deposited in the archives of the Army Museum.