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Donkey startled by a fashionable couple and woman taking off her wig for a monk
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Donkey startled by a fashionable couple and woman taking off her wig for a monk

anonymous · c. 1750 - c. 1800 · etching; paper

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

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Untrimmed sheet with two representations, numbered 3 and 10. Under the representations two lines of verse in Dutch. On the left a street scene with a rearing donkey in front of a man and woman, with the verse: 'How daintily you are dressed, / that even the donkey is frightened of you'. On the right a representation with a woman who arrives at a convent. She stands before a monk and takes off her wig. Through a window three nuns look on. Under the representation the verse: 'They will here in the convent life, / soon give you another hairstyle.'

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Subjects
cartoonprintass, donkeymonks and nunscloisters ~ monasteryclothes, costume
Credit lineEzel schrikt van een modieus koppel en vrouw neemt haar pruik af voor een monnik. c. 1750 - c. 1800. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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