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Children! if you wish to make yourselves merry / With these strange nose-snakes, / Then behold them, and laugh freely / At the collection full of folly
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Children! if you wish to make yourselves merry / With these strange nose-snakes, / Then behold them, and laugh freely / At the collection full of folly

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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Sheet with 24 comic depictions of figures with large and deformed noses. Under each image a two-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 86.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printcaricatures (human types)
Credit lineKinders! wilt ge u vrolyk maaken / Met deez' raare neuzen-snaaken, / Zo beschouwt ze, en lacht dan vry / Om 't gestel, vol zotterny. 1715 - 1813. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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