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This children's print teaches, briefly and well, / What benefit engineering brings. / How it lightens human labor, / And accomplishes incomprehensibly much
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This children's print teaches, briefly and well, / What benefit engineering brings. / How it lightens human labor, / And accomplishes incomprehensibly much

W. van Bergen · 1810 · 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 8 depictions of men using tools, including a press and a crane. Under each image a six-line poem. Numbered top right: No. 63.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printprinting pressdock crane
Credit lineDeez' kinderprint leert, kort en goed, / Wat nut de werktuigkunde doet. / Hoe zy der menschen werk verligt, / En onbegryplyk veel verricht. 1810. W. van Bergen. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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