Benjamin Asmussen

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Maritime historian & Senior Researcher @National Museum of Denmark interested in global connections - especially early modern Danish-Norwegian trading companies and their encounters. Experimenting with LLMs to gain historian superpowers!

Castle Kronborg in Elsinore, likely painted by an 18th century Chinese artist. But on which basis?

A copperplate of the Norwegian naval hero Michael Tønder in battle. Photo: The Royal Library of Denmark

Round painting of the former HQ of the Danish Asiatic Company, showing warehouses, dock and shipyard.

A large Chinese painting showing the production chain of tea as well as the export by European ship. Perhaps from around the year 1800.