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Behold here, eager youth! a useful variety. / May it serve you for pleasure and instruction! / Let nature and art always please you, / And awaken a desire for knowledge in your tender heart
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 36 depictions of animals, plants, buildings and objects. Below each image a two-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 26.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineZie hier, leergrage jeugd! een nuttig allerlei. / Dat hat u tot vermaak en leeringe gedij'! / Laat steeds natuur en kunst u tot genoegen strekken, / En lust tot kennis in uw teêrem boezem wekken. c. 1822 - 1849. Mindermann & Co.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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