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'The Modest Girl Rejects Unlawful Advances'
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
This print belongs to a series of ten with the title Diligence and Dissipation, about two servant girls – a virtuous one and a debauched one – living with an unmarried gentleman. In this episode, the good maid is resisting her master’s advances. The moralizing caption urges women to keep their honour spotless, a piece of advice that was heeded by this girl, who married her master at the end of the story.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit line‘Het bescheiden meisje verwerpt de ongeoorloofde toenadering’. 1796-05-01. Thomas Hellyer. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
