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All that you contemplate here, oh youth! / Pleases your eye, it hinders no virtue. / Contemplate here first three useful things, / And let the fourth amuse your spirit
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All that you contemplate here, oh youth! / Pleases your eye, it hinders no virtue. / Contemplate here first three useful things, / And let the fourth amuse your spirit

Johan Noman · 1806 - 1830 · 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 4 depictions of a farmer milking his cow, of farmers plowing the field with horses, of an egg seller on his way to the market, and of children jumping rope. Below each image a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 145.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printstreet-traderjumping-rope gamesploughingmilking
Credit lineAl wat gy hier beschouwt, ô jeugd! / Streelt het uw oog, 't belet geen deugd. / Beschouw hier eerst drie nutte zaaken, / En laat de vierde uw' geest vermaaken. 1806 - 1830. Johan Noman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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