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Ice skating with monkeys, ca. 1720
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Ice skating with monkeys, ca. 1720

Matthijs Pool · 1720 · etching; engraving; paper

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

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Ice entertainment with monkeys outside a city. In the inscription, verses in French and Dutch. Print no. 12 in a series of 16 prints from ca. 1720 in which monkeys appear as humans in various domestic scenes.

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printwinter sportsmonkeys, apes
Credit lineIJsvermaak met apen, ca. 1720. 1720. Matthijs Pool. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.
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