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The Innocent Amusement of Children Is Pleasant and Can Do No Harm; But the Frightening Rudeness Is That Which Deprives Youth of Amusement.
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 4 scenes of children's games: marbles, blind man's bluff, riding a hobby horse and disguising as a ghost. Under each image a two-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 136.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit line´T onschuldige vermaak der kindren, / Is aangenaam en kan niet hindren, / Maar 't schrikverwekkend onbescheid / Is 't dat de jeugd vermaak ontzeid. 1715 - 1813. Stichter, erven weduwe Cornelis. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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The innocent amusement of children, / Is pleasant and can do no harm, / But the frightening rudeness / Is what deprives youth of pleasure
Teach children through this print in your tender youth, / That nothing makes you praiseworthy but the maintenance of virtue
The arrangement of the All-Governor / Works everywhere, now here, now there. / Therefore pay attention, ô youth! to these events, / Which there describe the example for you
See what can amuse the mind, / Through all kinds of fine things, / Mostly those that the country life offers / To everyone who has money, that is everything
See what can amuse the mind, / Through all kinds of fine things, / Mostly those that the country life offers / To everyone who has money, that is everything
The witty farce of Jan Klaassen and his girl, / The fine Saartje Jans, but plump of flesh, / And what else happened to Jan Jaspers, / And Diewertje, is it not all seen in this print set