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Boys, if you wish to increase your joy, / Study this print, / For it is of paper dolls, / Which everyone can satisfy. / If you wish to amuse yourself more, / Make paintings from them here, / Cut them out beautifully according to the style, / And paste them on board paper
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Sheet with 24 depictions of the many skills and arts of Tetjeroen. Below each image a two-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 52.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineJongens wil je vreugd vermeeren, Wilt in deeze prent studeeren, Want het is van tetjeroen, Die een ieder kon voldoen. / Zoo gy u meer wilt verblyen, Maak hier van dan schilderyen, Snyt ze uit mooi na . 1791 - 1812. Jacobus Thompson (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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