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If You Wish to Love Curiosities, Set Your Mind on These Little Prints, Suitable for Your Amusement, O Youth! and Add Your Love of Reading to Your Joy.
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If You Wish to Love Curiosities, Set Your Mind on These Little Prints, Suitable for Your Amusement, O Youth! and Add Your Love of Reading to Your Joy.

Jan Oortman (Sr.) · 1715 - 1813 · 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 scenes of professions and occupations. Under each image a caption. Numbered top right: No. 134.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printrecreation, amusementworking class, labourerscrafts and industries
Credit lineZo ge aartigheden wilt beminnen, / Zet op deez' prentjes dan uw zinnen, / Tot uw vermaak geschikt, ô jeugd! / En voeg uw leeslust by uw vreugd. 1715 - 1813. Jan Oortman (Sr.). Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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