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Drawers, Engravers and Printers, here in this print, / Present to you a dozen, that you all know as children. / If this picture gives you pleasure, if you like our choice, / This will awaken our zeal, your amusement is our motto
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Drawers, Engravers and Printers, here in this print, / Present to you a dozen, that you all know as children. / If this picture gives you pleasure, if you like our choice, / This will awaken our zeal, your amusement is our motto

Alexander Cranendoncq · 1781 - 1828 · letterpress printing; colour; houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Sheet with 16 depictions of various figures, such as a fish seller and a statue seller. Below each image a four-line verse. Numbered top left: No. 90.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printstreet-tradermerchant, salesman
Credit lineTeekenaars, Graveurs en Drukkers, stellen hier in deze prent, / U een zestiental voor oogen, dat gy kind'ren allen kent. / geeft u dit tafreel genogen, vindt gy smaak in onze keus, / Dit zal onze yver. 1781 - 1828. Alexander Cranendoncq. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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