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With reverence and admiration, / You must contemplate this print, / The reason for it, dear youth, / I shall unfold to you
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With reverence and admiration, / You must contemplate this print, / The reason for it, dear youth, / I shall unfold to you

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 a large depiction of a printing house (possibly that of Laurens Jansz. Coster). On the left two men at type cases, in the center a man operating the printing press, and on the right two men editing printed sheets. Above, freshly printed sheets hang over beams to dry. In the lower margin an inscription in four columns. Numbered top right: No. 110.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printLaurens Janszoon Costerprinting pressprinter
Credit lineMet eerbied en bewondering, / Moet gij deez' plaat beschouwen, / De reden daarvan lieve jeugd, / Zal ik u voort ontvouwen. 1850 - 1870. Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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