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Provide for this time, so that the winter days, / At your warm hearth, do not complain too much, / But it is the great question: although one counts the slaughter month, / Do you have a good purse with money for meat and bacon?
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Provide for this time, so that the winter days, / At your warm hearth, do not complain too much, / But it is the great question: although one counts the slaughter month, / Do you have a good purse with money for meat and bacon?

1833 - 1900 · 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 24 depictions of breeding, slaughtering, and preparing cows and pigs (the slaughter season). Below each image a two-line verse. Numbered at the top center: no. 102.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printbutcher, slaughterman
Credit lineVoorziet u dezen tyd, opdat de winterdagen, / Uw by een warmen haerd, ook niet te veel doen klagen, / Maer 't is de groote vraeg: schoon dat men slagtmaend telt, / Hebt gy voor vleesch en spek een goe. 1833 - 1900. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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