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Adventures of a hunchback / Aventures de Mayeux
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 16 scenes of a hunchbacked man. Below each image an inscription in Dutch and in French. Numbered in the center above: No. 112.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineLotgevallen van een bultenaer / Aventures de Mayeux. 1856 - 1900. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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Choose, O children! from the images below, / Your taste, or whether they perhaps pleased your choice and senses / Tachez de faire un choix, enfants, / Dans les sujets de ce présent
Here one finds trade and livelihood, / Each earns his bread in his own way. / Whether on the street or in the shops, / But never at the French fairs
Youth, I come here in this print to give you, / A number of persons who, without working, live off your purses / See here, O dear youth! a part of the chevaliers d'industrie, / Who without working, to your detriment, procure their livelihood
As at the fair, in a tent, / You also see here Jan Klaassen's farce prove, / Therefore read, o youth! the explanation of this print, / To your instruction it was written here below
Such things of children's play, / Also suitors, maidens, men, women, / See them displayed to you, O dear youth! / Read what they do, to your joy