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Biblical print images of the Old and New Testament
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with sixteen depictions of stories from the Old and New Testaments, such as the expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise and the birth of Christ. Below each image a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 49.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit linePrintverbeeldingen van 't Oude en Nieuwe Testament. 1831 - 1854. Christoffel van Sichem. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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See, to the joy of your spirit, / While you read the following, / O youth! the most beautiful and strange things, / Which you can make to your benefit
See here, and laugh at the fashionable life, oh youth! yes, mock freely the procession, / Which, foolishly, wishes to make a mockery of itself; / Cultivate dignity in your mind
Children's virtues and vices / See how these little prints speak; / That they show you all at once / The punishment of vice and the reward of virtue
Behold with attention these scenes, / And let them delight your heart, / Which display the courage of the Netherlands, / So that this courage may also dwell within you
With this, cover your book, / And also spend your time well, / To learn what you have, / Until you are given something else
The six pairs of sketches in this print tableau wish to show / What one comes to witness from the beginning of the year / Until the end, and what happens in each month, / As you, O youth! see here in this twelve-month series