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Fortune Teller

Cornelis de Wael · 1630 - 1648 · etching; engraving; paper

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

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Among peasants, a fortune-teller wrapped in rags reads the hand of a richly dressed woman. The fortune-teller looks back at a peasant woman breastfeeding her child. To the right by a wall a woman stirs a cooking pot. Numbered in the lower right: 13.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description

Subjects

print nursing, suckling kitchen-utensils: pot

Credit lineWaarzegster. 1630 - 1648. Cornelis de Wael. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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