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Children's Play / Le jeu d'Enfant
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 24 depictions of children's games, including playing soldier, hoop rolling, kite flying, swinging, and jump rope. Below each image a two-line verse in Dutch and French. Numbered at the top center: N. 65.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineHet kinderspel / Le jeu d'Enfant. 1833 - 1900. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Appropriate rustic play may amuse you, O youth / But follow no prank of Till Eulenspiegel; / Remain related to virtue and duty: -- then you will taste joy, / Then this true pleasure rises -- that soul-joy constantly to the top
See here, dear little boys, a pretty print, / You may freely amuse yourselves with it, / But make sure you always know your lessons well, / Then that joy will taste even better
The Troublesome Street Shouting of Small Merchants, / Will Show You This New Print Very Pleasantly / The Sharp Cries of Small Merchants, / Make This Tableau Diverting
Appropriate rustic play may amuse you, O youth / But follow no prank of Till Eulenspiegel; / Remain related to virtue and duty: -- then you will taste joy, / Then this true pleasure rises -- that soul-joy constantly to the top
Uilenspiegel was a rogue, / And performed many whims; / But children, never follow his life, / Which would bring you no honor but shame
See here, dear little boys, a pretty print, / You may freely amuse yourselves with it, / But make sure you always know your lessons well, / Then that joy will taste even better