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Children! Learn in the early beginning, learn with dolls, / What must be useful to us in a better station, / Virtue, can you learn from children's play with pleasure, / Even the very smallest beginning, [(...)] before a woman's task
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Children! Learn in the early beginning, learn with dolls, / What must be useful to us in a better station, / Virtue, can you learn from children's play with pleasure, / Even the very smallest beginning, [(...)] before a woman's task

Schalekamp & Van de Grampel · 1795 - 1819 · letterpress printing; houtsnede; paper

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Sheet with 8 scenes of children's games and occupations, such as playing with dolls and hoop rolling. Under each scene a two-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 16.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular print(playing with) dolls
Credit lineKindren! Leer in 't vroege begin, leer by poppengoed, / Wat us in een beter stand, nuttog weezen moet, / Deugd, kunt gy uit 't kinderspel, leeren met vermaak, / Ook het allerkleinst begin, [(...)] eer. 1795 - 1819. Schalekamp & Van de Grampel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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