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Wish card with inn and fairground stalls
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Wish card with inn and fairground stalls

anonymous · 1797 · pen; etching; calligraphy; paper; ink

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Greeting card with inscribed cartouche within a decorative frame depicting an inn, feasting and drinking people, a man on horseback, and fairground stalls. Handwritten message in calligraphy (fairground card) by Hillegond Bakker to a friend. Numbered top right: No. 23. Numbered bottom right: 80.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
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printpopular printwensbriefhuman typeshotel, hostelry, inn
Credit lineWensbrief met herberg en kermistenten. 1797. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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