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Children! If You Wish to Amuse Yourselves, / Come, Behold These Figures, / Each in Their Station and Deeds; / Let This Also Satisfy Your Love of Reading
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Children! If You Wish to Amuse Yourselves, / Come, Behold These Figures, / Each in Their Station and Deeds; / Let This Also Satisfy Your Love of Reading

Stichter, erven weduwe Cornelis · 1715 - 1813 · letterpress printing; houtsnede; paper

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

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Leaf with 24 depictions of various figures. Under each image a six-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 14.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printhuman typescharacters (human types)
Credit lineKindren! zo ge u wilt vermaaken, / Koomt, beschouwt dan deeze snaaken, / Elk in zynen stand en doen; / Wilt daar by uw leeslust voên. 1715 - 1813. Stichter, erven weduwe Cornelis. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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