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The Roasted Chickens
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The Roasted Chickens

Max Haider · 1843 - c. 1920 · letterpress printing; wood engraving; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Sheet with 11 depictions of an innkeeper who wants to drive away chickens. Through a trick by a hunter, he accidentally shoots them dead. At the end, the innkeeper and the hunter eat the chickens. Below each image an inscription. Numbered in the center bottom: No. 126. Numbered top right: 126.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printhunterhotel, hostelry, inn
Credit lineDe gebraden hoentjes. 1843 - c. 1920. Max Haider. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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