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Dear Youth, wish to amuse yourself with this print, take pleasure, / These are familiar things to you, which you find here on paper
From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.
About this work
Sheet with eight depictions of circus artists and street vendors (including a magician, street singer, and woman with a peep show). Below each picture a four-line verse. Numbered top right: No. 7. Ca. 1828-1850.
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own descriptionSubjects
Credit lineLieve Jeugd, wil U vermaken, met deze prent, neeemt U Plaizier, / Het zijn voor U bekende zaken, die gij hier vindt op het papier. 1828 - 1850. Broese & Comp.. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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