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The Little Man Margriet van Majersveld, 1720
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
The Little Man Margriet van Majersveld, a peasant woman and twelve-year-old bride with a rake on her shoulder. Verses in German, French, and Dutch in the caption. Numbered right center: 40. Print within a decorative border printed from a separate plate with two little people at a fruit basket at the bottom. 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 Margriet van Majersveld, 1720. 1716 - 1720. Anna Folkema. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
