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Boys, if you wish to increase your joy, study in this print. For it is Tetjeroen, who can satisfy everyone. / If you wish to be more delighted, make pictures of this. Cut them out according to the style, and paste them on red paper.
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with 24 scenes from the life of the quack doctor and jester Tetjeroen. He becomes an apprentice to a doctor, tricks farmers out of their money, brews drinks from horse figs, and drives off with his sweetheart in a carriage. Below each scene a two-line verse.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineJongens wilje vreught vermeeren, wilt in dese print stuhdeeren. Want het is Tetjeroen, die een yder kon voldoen. / Soo gy u meer wilt verblijen, maeckt hier van dan Schildrijen. Snijtseuyt dan na d' s. 1704 - 1716. Jan Jacobsz. Bouman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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