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Boys, If You Wish to Increase Your Joy / Then Quickly Learn These Sayings
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Boys, If You Wish to Increase Your Joy / Then Quickly Learn These Sayings

Monogrammist WH (prentmaker) · 1725 - 1780 · 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 24 depictions of proverbs. Under each image a two-line verse. Numbered top right: 46.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printproverbs, sayings, etc.
Credit lineJongens wild gy vreugd vermeeren / Zoo wild ras dees spreuken leeren. 1725 - 1780. Monogrammist WH (prentmaker). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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