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Cattle startled by a peasant woman with a 'pouf' and man wounds another man with his parasol
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Cattle startled by a peasant woman with a 'pouf' and man wounds another man with his parasol

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 9 and 4. Under the representations two lines of verse in Dutch. On the left a cattle keeper who with high hairstyle and hat arrives at her cattle, which is frightened of her. With the verse: 'Now that I am once nicely dressed, / The Cattle, as if it is frightened of me'. On the right stands a man with parasol explaining its use to a group of people with parasols. The man touches another man in the face with the back of his parasol. Under the representation: 'The Nobility, Citizen, Peasant, I make them all Lords, / All who just want to learn the manual of the Parasol'.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineVee schrikt van boerin met 'pouf' en man verwondt een andere man met zijn parasol. c. 1750 - c. 1800. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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