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Here you see, ô children! depicted to your horror, / How a bad household breeds disorder / Where man and woman, mutually driven by discord, / Live miserably in drunkenness, quarreling and beating
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Here you see, ô children! depicted to your horror, / How a bad household breeds disorder / Where man and woman, mutually driven by discord, / Live miserably in drunkenness, quarreling and beating

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

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Sheet with 2 depictions. Top: the drunken Dries being brought to his wife Tryn. Bottom: Tryn giving the drunken Dries a sound beating. Below the images a verse in three columns. Numbered top right: No. 116.

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printpopular printhen-pecked husbanddrunkarddrunkenness
Credit lineHier ziet ge, ô kinders! u ten afschrik, afgebeeld, / Welke ongeregeldheen het kwaad huishouden teelt / Daar man en vrouw weerzyds door tweedragt aangedreven, / In dronkenschap, gekyf en slaan, ellend. 1715 - 1813. Stichter, erven weduwe Cornelis. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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