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Dear girls, you will find here various amusements; / Yet never neglect your learning for the sake of this pleasant game
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Leaf with 12 depictions of children's games for girls, including jump rope, playing with a board game, swinging, and playing with dolls. Below each image is a four-line verse.
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Credit lineLieve meisjes vindt gij hier voor n velerlei vermaken / Wil toch voor het aardig spel uwen leertijd nooit verzaken. 1819 - 1840. Alexander Cranendoncq. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Dear girls, here you find various amusements / Do not neglect your learning time for this charming game
This print is well worth double the money, / Where the Cinderella of the hearth / And in the oppression of the family, / Yet was elevated to a princess
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Little Red Riding Hood can serve as a lesson / To children both big and small. / Disobedience has always / Prepared the heaviest punishment for itself
Variety of things, / Most suitable to amuse youth / Les désirs de l'enfance, / Sont pour la différence
If you, dear children, have read this print, / And perhaps longed for others, / Then bring your parents or friends, / There are more that will please you