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Boys, if you wish to increase your joy, / Study in this print (...)
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
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Sheet with 24 depictions of the life of the quack doctor and prankster Tetjeroen. He becomes an apprentice to a doctor, extorts money from farmers, brews drinks from horse figs, and drives off with his sweetheart in a carriage. Under each image a two-line verse. Numbered top left: No. 45.
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Credit lineJongens wil je vreugd vermeeren, / Wilt in deeze Prent studeeren (...). 1761 - 1804. Egmont, erven de Weduwe Jacobus van. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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