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Midwife and Miss Katelijn
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Two scenes on an album leaf. Left: the fictional portrait of a midwife named Perijntge with a swaddled child in her arms. In the background a church interior with a baptism ceremony. Right: Miss Katelijn (or Cato) lying in bed, ready to breastfeed her child. Below two quatrains in Dutch. The print is part of an album.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineVroedvrouw en juffrouw Katelijn. 1641. Crispijn van de Passe (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
