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Title: Centsprent: Jongens wil je vreugd vermeeren, Wild in deze print studeeren, Want het is van Tetjeroen, Die een yder kon voldoen, 37.
Description: Cachpenny print. A children’s print of Tetjeroen, a quack (kwakzalver), who - after studying with a doctor - swindles his patients, creates medicine out of horse dung, and performs farces on the streets. The print is intended for entertainment and encourages the young readers to paint the already framed scenes, cut them out and paste them on red paper: ‘Zo gy u meer wilt verblyen, Maakt hier van dan Schilderyen: Sneytze uyt mooy na de zwier, En plak ze dan op Root-Papier.’Amsterdam, wed. Jeronimus Ratelband en Joh. Bouwer (1768 - 1770), address mentioned on the print: ‘t’ Amsterdam, by de Wed. J. Ratelband, en J. Bouwer, op de Rooze Gragt, Zuyd-Zyde, in de Bybel-Drukkerye’; numbered ‘37’ in upper right corner. l 24 woodcut illustrations in frames (each ca. 32 x 47 mm) on paper; hand coloured in orange and blue; 2-line verses under each image; total: 410 x 310 mm; folded twice, small tears in the margins.De Meyer p. 270, Boerma p. 804 (Ratelband 37).

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