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Thus Can Fable Poetry Teach and Delight You, / Through a Variety of Strange Matters. / Therefore, Give Ear, O Youth Eager for Learning, to Fable Instruction, / And Press Ever More and More Towards Truth and Virtue
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Thus Can Fable Poetry Teach and Delight You, / Through a Variety of Strange Matters. / Therefore, Give Ear, O Youth Eager for Learning, to Fable Instruction, / And Press Ever More and More Towards Truth and Virtue

Schalekamp & Van de Grampel · c. 1806 - c. 1837 · letterpress printing; colour; houtsnede; paper

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Sheet with 6 scenes of fables. Under each image a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 82.

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Credit lineZoo kan het fabeldicht u leeren en vermaken, / Door een verscheidenheid van zonderlinge zaken. / Geef dan, leergrage jeugd! ook fabelleer gehoor, / En dring zoo meer en meer tot waar- en braafheid doo. c. 1806 - c. 1837. Schalekamp & Van de Grampel. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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