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Children, Read This Print, and Learn from Youth to Fear Doing Evil
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Children, Read This Print, and Learn from Youth to Fear Doing Evil

Dirk Kemink · 1753 - 1776 · 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 12 scenes of punishments and executions, including flogging, the gallows and beheading with a sword. Below each image a two-line verse.

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Credit lineKinders wilt dees printe leezen, En leert van jongs op kwaad doen vreezen. 1753 - 1776. Dirk Kemink. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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