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How This Beautiful Tree Is Cared for by Maidens and Lads! One Alone, Who Is Surely Sickly, Lies at the Foot to Sleep.
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Sheet with 2 scenes of the suitor and spinster tree. Left: a tree full of women, from which men can choose a suitor. Right: a tree full of men, from which ladies can "pluck" a potential suitor. Under each image an eight-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 139.
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Credit lineHoe wordt dit schoon geboomt' verzorgd, door maagden en door knapen! / Een enkle, (die wis zieklyk is,) ligt aan den voet te slapen. 1715 - 1813. Gerrit Oortman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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