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New Year's print of the Amsterdam lamplighters for the year 1794
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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New Year's print for the year 1794 by the Amsterdam lamplighters in district no. 7, dedicated to the citizens of Amsterdam. Lamplighters at work on the street during the day and in the evening. On the sheet below the scene a verse in two columns with in the addendum a song in three columns.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionCredit lineNieuwjaarsprent van de Amsterdamse lantaarnopstekers voor het jaar 1794. 1793 - 1794. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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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
Here you see, O children! depicted as a warning to you, / Which irregularities a bad household breeds. / Where man and woman, driven by discord against each other, / In drunkenness, quarreling and beating, equally miserable