![Was there ever a people on earth / That one calls lazy and tasty? / This / oh children: will you ask / As you praise these prints [(...)]](https://thumbs.arkivism.com/rijks-RP-P-OB-204.486.jpg)
Public domain
Was there ever a people on earth / That one calls lazy and tasty? / This / oh children: will you ask / As you praise these prints [(...)]
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with 12 scenes of people feasting and eating in Luilekkerland. Under each image a four-line verse.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWas er ooit een volk op aarde / dat men lui en lekker noemt? / Dit / o kindren: zult gij vragen / als gij deze prentjes roemt [(...)]. 1831 - 1854. Jacob Coldewijn. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
Similar works
![Behold, children! displayed before your eyes, / How sometimes compassion resides [(...)]](https://thumbs.arkivism.com/rijks-RP-P-OB-205.674.jpg)
Behold, children! displayed before your eyes, / How sometimes compassion resides [(...)]
Consider this print, O youth! how the farming class, / Through tireless diligence, brings much benefit to the land, / He ploughs, he sows and reaps the fruit sprung from the Earth, / He thanks God's wise government, received from His hand
Luilekkerland / Pays de Cocagne
If you wish, youth! to amuse your eye and spirit, / With Biblical historical matters; / In which God's power is shown to you, / Which punishes the evil and rewards the good.
Figures, Professions and Occupations
You, dear children, can learn from the example of Tom Thumb, / That courage and foresight can overcome danger