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Fairy tale of Little Thumb
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Sheet with twenty scenes from the fairy tale of Little Thumb. Under each image a two-line verse in Dutch and in French. Numbered top center: n. 18. Subject categories within the Atlas Manners and Customs: Manners and Customs in a Narrower Sense, Man's beginning, middle and end, Children's life – Children's play and children's pictures.
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Credit lineSprookje van Klein Duimpje. 1856 - 1900. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Children, if you wish to increase your joy, / And study in this print, / Cut them out beautifully according to the design, / And paste them on stiff paper
The Life of Little Thumb / Vie du petit Poucet
Appropriate rustic play may amuse you, O youth / But follow no prank of Till Eulenspiegel; / Remain related to virtue and duty: -- then you will taste joy, / Then this true pleasure rises -- that soul-joy constantly to the top
Appropriate rustic play may amuse you, O youth / But follow no prank of Till Eulenspiegel; / Remain related to virtue and duty: -- then you will taste joy, / Then this true pleasure rises -- that soul-joy constantly to the top
Appropriate rustic play may amuse you, O youth / But follow no prank of Till Eulenspiegel; / Remain related to virtue and duty: -- then you will taste joy, / Then this true pleasure rises -- that soul-joy constantly to the top
Till Eulenspiegel was a rogue, / And performed many pranks; / But children, never follow his life, / Which would bring you no honor but shame