Geertruid ter Brugge, hebbende gedient in den oorlog voor Dragender

Hand-colored engraving by and after P.S.; full-length portrait of woman soldier, standing, in semi-military costume, landscape background with small figures of soldiers foraging. Hand-colored engraving by and after P.S.; full-length portrait of woman soldier, standing, in semi-military costume, landscape background with small figures of soldiers foraging. Little is known about Geertruid ter Brugge. In the first years of the War of Succession, she must have served as a soldier for some time. Later she went to live in The Hague, where she had a child baptized in 1706. The fact that the mother was registered as "La Dragonne" in the baptismal book suggests that she was a well-known personality under that name. She is the only female soldier of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of whom an image exists. (http://resources.huygens.knaw.nl/vrouwenlexicon/lemmata/data/GeertruidBrugge) N.Y., Rockman Prints, 1955.