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The Little Man Potjerollia van Mestenburg, 1720
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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The Little Man Potjerollia of Mestenburg as a peasant woman. Verses in German, French, and Dutch in the caption. Numbered right center: 37. Print within a decorative border printed from a separate plate with heads of Chinese little people and masks. Part of Part II in the second Dutch bound edition of 1720 (related to the Windhandel of that year) of a series of caricatures of little people, known as Het Dwergentooneel, partly copied from an older German model.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineDe kleine mens Potjerollia van Mestenburg, 1720. 1716 - 1720. Joost van Sassen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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