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When the Rooster Feeds Greedily, Consuming Food and Drink, While the Hen Claps and Crows, Then It Goes Entirely Wrong; So If Each Performs His Duty and Stays Awake at His Post, Then There Is Harmony, and This Brings Amusement.
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Sheet with 2 scenes of a man and a woman and their struggle for the breeches. Under each image a six-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 140.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineWanneer de haan zig vraatig voedt; de spys en drank verteert, / Terwyl de hen klapwiekt en kraait, dan gaat het gantsch verkeerd. / Zo elk zyn' pligt betracht, en op zyn post blyft waaken, / Dan heeft. 1715 - 1813. Gerrit Oortman. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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