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Children, if you wish to make yourselves merry, / With these strange nose-snakes. / So consider them and laugh freely, / For this print full of folly
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Children, if you wish to make yourselves merry, / With these strange nose-snakes. / So consider them and laugh freely, / For this print full of folly

Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn. · 1850 - 1870 · letterpress printing; colour; houtsnede; paper

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

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Sheet with 24 comic depictions of figures with large and deformed noses. Below each depiction a two-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 69.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printcaricatures (human types)physiognomy
Credit lineKind'ren wilt ge u vrolijk maken, / Met deez' raare neuzen-snaken. / Zoo beschouw ze en lach dan vrij, / Om deez' prent vol zotternij. 1850 - 1870. Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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