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Here you have various fish / Which taste well when they are on the table
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Here you have various fish / Which taste well when they are on the table

Johannes Kannewet (II) · 1558 · 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 sixteen depictions of fish, designated as whiting, salmon, 'Bern', stockfish, plaice, 'Sea-Lion', carp, eel, mackerel, cod ('Labberdaan'), gurnard, pollack, bream, conger eel, herring, and sprat. Below each image the name of the fish according to this print. Numbered top right: 34.

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Credit lineHier hebt gy nu verscheyde vis / Die wel smaakt als z' zijn op den dis. 1558. Johannes Kannewet (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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