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Soldiers
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with twelve depictions of soldiers. Under each image a two-line verse. Numbered at top: No. 25. Subject categories within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Manners and Customs in the Narrower Sense, The Human Life, Middle and End, Childhood – Children's Play and Children's Pictures.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineMilitairen. 1848 - 1881. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Where the heart beats for country and king, / Every citizen is always a soldier. / Where everyone strives to fight for the fatherland / Everyone sees themselves freed from the yoke
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This print shows in many images / Old-Holland's renown in former days; / And how the valor of our fathers / Still dared to risk their lives for the country
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What weapons, what clothing, the art of exercising, / Just look at these prints, you can learn much from them, / What has war not invented in arts, / To the subversion of the human race