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O dear children! who you are. / Spend your precious time usefully (...)
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O dear children! who you are. / Spend your precious time usefully (...)

Jacobus Thompson (I) · 1791 - 1812 · 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 depictions of childhood life based on poems by Hieronymus van Alphen. Below each depiction a four-line verse. Numbered top right No. 62.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printHieronymus Simons van AlphenchildGood Behaviour
Credit lineÔ lieve kindren! wie gy zyt. / Besteed met nut uw dierbren tyd (...). 1791 - 1812. Jacobus Thompson (I). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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