Bohuslän Museum
Sv/v photograph behind glass pasted on cardboard cardboard with black profiled paper, similar to a frame.
The one corner of the glass is brackish.
The portrait depicts Wilhelm von Braun (1813-1860), the author and the shell.
Under the photograph is printed:
Foot. Lauritz Olsen Kjöbenhavn
Hereunder written in ink:
Wilh. von Braun
-- "Ha 'n In did his writing, fools?
A thorny tag pen, and the ink - tears. "
The text may possibly be written by himself.
The handwritten lines during the photograph are taken from one of his more serious poems, Mitt konterfej.
Here the first and last stanzas of this poem:
It was too furiously hilarious! No!
Is this to be my conterfey?
Is this one  “old beÂ,” so thick in sight,
And with the frowned eyebrows,
My own beloved, sworn friend,
The himself so called Brn
The der poet, who jemt wants to roar
To arrive with it  “equivoqua”?
The der, whom the ladies never read,
And as af them becomes appropriately tight?
But I’ll joke, isn’t it that way?
It wants the publisher. Well hope! let go!
It’s good fun to be fun,
When with the lack is confidential!
But, just as good! You have been appalled,
To believe me to be a lusty f-n.
Hope therefore pajas! There is a good fate:
In the tomb, you do not spawn.
How lucky it, who is happy dead!
I have to laugh to get bread. ...
If people just knew, how the joy flaws
For the so-called humorists,
They would thank their God for it
he without humor them born sounded.
As the bones lie in the saint’s rabbit,
There is grief in the woolly grin;
However, hvad cares about it der,
If the humorist is just about  “rolig” is!
But have 'n I notched his writing, fools?
A thorny tag pen, and the ink - tears.
...
And now, my gunly public,
You image seen af a happy poet,
As now more to little delight,
Af very small - just four boards.
(Ur Carolina, 1844)
Wilhelm von Braun was born on the Brängesås estate in Kölingared in the municipality of Ulricehamn and is buried in the Northern cemetery in Uddevalla.
From Nationalencyclopedia:
"Author. B. became a lieutenant in 1839, but in 1846 took his dismissal from the military. He made his debut with Dikter (1837-38) and then collected his poems and prose pieces in literary calendars, from Calle (1843) to Borup (1860), a total of ten. With his coarse-grained humor, sentimentality and his petty bourgeois rabulism, he was for some decades one of the most popular poets in the country.
From Knut Adrian Andersson’s catalog:
III: 67: 3
No 4 Cabinet format photograph of the scale
Wilhelm von Braun with a signature and
The following verses: “He I scorched his writing, fools? A thorny tag pen and the ink tears.” Sk. 22/3 1916 by Mrs Ellen Lönner Karlsson
From the Handwritten Catalogue 1957-1958:
Photography: W.v. Braun
The dimensions of the photo. H. 13. Br. 9.5. Framed. Signed “Wilh. von Braun” and verse. 14 Lappdirectory:!
The information is from the following model form
Reference to UM 000,983.
Olsen, Lauritz