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The Little Man Winvelius van Kroeg Verlaats Daelen, 1720
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The little man Winvelius van Kroeg verlaats dalen, sack carrier. Verses in German, French and Dutch in the caption. Numbered right center: 44. Print within a decorative border printed from a separate plate with Chinese little people and a smoking little man with an opium pipe at the bottom. Part of volume II in the second Dutch bound edition of 1720 (and 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 Winvelius van Kroeg verlaats dalen, 1720. 1716 - 1720. Anna Folkema. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.