Public domain
See here displayed the fable prints full of meaning / To delight the instructive child / while edifying
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with 4 scenes of a battle between a cat and mice, and a battle between a fox and chickens. Below the scene a two-line verse. Numbered top right: *89.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineZiet hier vertoond dier fabel-prenten vol van zinnen / Om het leerzame kind / al stichtende te vermaaken. 1725 - 1780. Johannes Kannewet (II). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
Similar works
Vigilance and the practice of virtue, sources of happiness and joy, / Are proclaimed to you in these fable prints, dear youth!
Learn This, O Young Youth, / But Do Not Gape at Everything / That is Displayed on the World's Stage; / It is the True Play of Monkeys
The witty farce of Jan Klaassen and his girl, / The fine Saartje Jans, but plump of flesh, / And what else happened to Jan Jaspers, / And Diewertje, is it not all seen in this print set
Both men's and women's work, of artists, craftsmen, / And shopkeepers, you can, O children! see here.
Both men's and women's work, by artists, craftsmen, / And shopkeepers, you can see here, O children!
These little prints, dear children, are not fit for joy, / But to instruct you on the narrow path of virtue. / By instilling aversion for vice, which leads us / To the most terrible calamities, in time and eternity