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Nothing should diminish your attention, When you are looking at the print / You learn from it, eager children, How to unite one's benefit with diligence
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Nothing should diminish your attention, When you are looking at the print / You learn from it, eager children, How to unite one's benefit with diligence

1806 - 1830 · letterpress printing; colour; houtsnede; paper

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

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Leaf with 16 depictions of craftsmen and professions, such as a glassblower, cook, and chairmaker. Below each image, a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 132.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printcookworking class, labourerscrafts and industriesmerchant, salesman
Credit lineNiets moet de oplettendheid vermindren, Als ge aan het prentbeschouwen zyt / Gy leert 'er door, leergraage kindren, Hoe men zyn nut vereent met vlyt. 1806 - 1830. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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