Centsprent: Deez’ prent vertoont aan klein en groot, / Den dwazen Robinson in nood, No. 66.

Name: Centsprent: Deez’ prent vertoont aan klein en groot, / Den dwazen Robinson in nood, No. 66.
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Catchpenny print. The history of Robinson Crusoe, showing how the ‘foolish’ Robinson survives after his shipwreck, by farming, hunting and gathering supplies. Despite his hardship, all ends well when a ship appears to take him home.
The story of Robinson Crusoe was very successful with publishers of Dutch Children’s prints. Already one year after the appearance of Defoe’s The Life and strange surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe (London 1719), a Dutch translation was made, and later Dutch versions of the story were published with a Robinson from Holland (1743), from Walcheren (1752) and The Hague (1758). Although neither the English nor the Dutch versions were intended for children, the story became a very popular topic for children’s prints in the nineteenth century (De Meyer p. 519).
Inscription with pencil on verso: ´Deze prent hoort toe aan Jan Kuiper´.

Den Bosch, Lutkie & Cranenburg (1848 – 1881), numbered ‘No 42.’ in the top.

SKU: 63478

16 woodcut illustrations (each ca. 55 x 50 mm); hand coloured in yellow, blue and red; under each image a 2-line verse, narrating the story; total: 405 x 305 mm; folded twice.
Meyer p. 227, Boerma p. 785 (Lutkie 42). CP079

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