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This fine print picture sets before you, children, / What can be accomplished through noble artistic skill, / To which nature so often leads man, / When he joins knowledge with tireless diligence
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This fine print picture sets before you, children, / What can be accomplished through noble artistic skill, / To which nature so often leads man, / When he joins knowledge with tireless diligence

Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn. · 1856 - c. 1858 · letterpress printing; colour; houtsnede; paper

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Sheet with 8 depictions of public transport in and from Amsterdam around 1839-1840, numbered in the upper right: No. 8. A four-line verse under each image. From top left to bottom right: 1, the railway station at the inn 'd'Eenhonderd Roe' outside Amsterdam. 2, steam locomotive 'De Arend'. 3, steam locomotive 'De Snelheid'. 4, first and second class train carriages ('Diligence' and 'char à bancs'). 5, third class train carriage ('waggon') and a freight train set. 6, Omnibus of the 'Amsterdam Omnibus Company'. 7, Omnibus of the company 'De Batavier'. 8, traditional horse-drawn carriage, a Diligence.

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printpopular printrailway, trainsteam locomotive
Credit lineDit fraaije prenttafreel stelt, kind'ren, u voor oogen, / Wat men verrigten kan door 't edel kunstvermogen, / Waartoe natuur den mensch zoo menigwerf geleidt, / Wanneer hij kennis paart aan onvermoeid. 1856 - c. 1858. Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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