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Little Red Riding Hood can serve as a lesson / To children both big and small. / Disobedience has always / Prepared the heaviest punishment for itself
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Sheet with the fairy tale of Little Red Riding Hood in fifteen depictions. Below each picture a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 3. Ca. 1800-1850.
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Credit lineRood-Kapje kan tot leering zijn / Aan kind'ren zoo wel groot als klein / Altoos heeft de ongehoorzaamheid / Zich zelf de zwaarste straf bereid. 1850 - 1870. Petrus Christiaan Leonardus van Staden Czn.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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