The Daily Valdemar No. 44: April 26

Valdemar Andersen, for the satirical magazine Plat'Menagen, 1910.

Today's moment of calm is the visual game of verbal interchange.

Please ignore the black corner to the left; it belongs to another drawing printed on the same page. To the left we have Count F.C.O. Raben-Levetzau, who had been minister of foreign affairs until the minister of justice of the same government turned himself in for fraud. Edvard Brandes was an author and intellectual and the present minister of finance at the time of their drawn interchange. 

They are both seen in profile, dressed in white tie and the ink is creating droves of light cascading on them mimicking the sparkling wit of their dialogue, where the movement of the one seems mirrored and continued in the other and yet it is not. We have a winner of their verbal game. Raben-Levetzau had inherited masses of land and has just stated that everybody is given the same chances in life, Brandes on the other hand accentuates that with his Jewish background his position was not a given, implying that had the former had to carve his own way in life, Raben-Levetzau would not even be in the scene.

To those interested in Danish cartooning, this is the painterly use of ink Eiler Krag was to take up in a later generation.