Centsprent: Deez’ prent vertoont aan klein en groot, / Van dwazen Robinson den nood … no. 27.

Name: Centsprent: Deez’ prent vertoont aan klein en groot, / Van dwazen Robinson den nood ... no. 27.
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Catchpenny print with the story 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).
Wijnhoven printed several fairy tales and stories that had become popular in the Netherlands at the start of the 19th century, such as Little Red Riding Hood (nr. 20).

Rotterdam, T. J. Wijnhoven-Hendriksen (1819 – 1849); via T.J. Jansen, Sluis, mentioned on the print: ‘Te Sluis in Vlaanderen, bij T.J. Jansen.’ (Jansen is not mentioned in De Meyer and Boerma); numbered ‘No. 27.’ in upper right corner.

SKU: 63222

16 woodcut illustrations (each ca. 55 x 50 mm) on mechanically produced paper; hand coloured in blue and red; under each image a 2-line verse, narrating the story; total: 400 x 330 mm; folded twice; tape ghosts at the edges from previous mounting.
Meyer p. 343, Boerma p. 839 (Wijnhoven 27). CP025

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