Childhood

Interior with young children holding toys. One of them with a walking frame. To the right stands a boy beside a baby in a cradle. On the wall hang images from the creation story. In the margin an eight-line poem in Dutch and French referring to carefree childhood, but also to foolishness. First print from a series of four on the ages of man. Subject headings within the Atlas Zeden en Gewoonten: Manners and Customs in a Narrower Sense, The Beginning, Middle and End of Man, Childhood – Children's Play and Children's Prints.