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Hand-colored 1738 print with an empty oval floral frame and small scenes of dining, children playing, and a couple by a river

Wish letter with loving couples and playing children

Jacobus Rijckhoff, 1738

Brown ink drawing of a shepherd couple with cattle, sheep and a horse beside a thatched shed under a tree.

A Shepherd Couple with Cattle near a Shed

Adriaen van de Velde, 1646 - 1672

Twelve-panel Dutch moralizing print of a miser punished by labor, drowning, and death, with hand-colored accents and captions

He who deserves the name of miser or greedy, / Is, as depicted here, not worthy of honor but shame! / Make, children!…

Jacob Coldewijn, 1831

Hand-coloured woodcut broadside of a decorated ox in a frame with ornamental borders, cherubs, and Dutch verse text.

Children come running now / To buy the ox boo / It is an excellent guild ox / You can buy it for little money

Erven H. Rynders, 1781

Hand-colored children's alphabet sheet with twenty-six cards, each showing a letter and an animal in blue, red and yellow.

New alphabet game for children / New alphabet game for children

Philippus Jacobus Brepols, 1800

Twelve-panel moralizing print showing a greedy man's punishment, rescue by boat, death, and burial, with Dutch captions.

He, who deserves the name of miser or greedy person, / Is, as depicted here, worthy of no honor but shame! / Make, ch…

Jacob Coldewijn, 1831

Hand-coloured broadside with rows of vignettes showing criminal Cartouche's crimes, arrest and execution, with verse captions

Let dear children let, the bloodthirst and deeds / Of this great villain, remain in your memory [(...)]

Erven H. Rynders, 1800

Pencil drawing of a street vendor with a barrel cart talking to a woman and child on a cobbled quay with ship masts behind.

Children with a street vendor along a quay

Pieter Bartholomeusz. Barbiers, 1782

Colored print of a river landscape at dusk with swimming children, water buffalo, palm trees, huts and a wooden bridge.

Landscape in the Batavian Ommelanden with swimming children

Johan Conrad Greive, 1865

Woodcut print of a garlanded ox within ornamental borders with cherubs, foliage and Dutch verse text above.

Children come now running / To buy the little ox / It is an excellent guild ox / You can buy it for little money

Erven H. Rynders, 1781

Woodcut sheet of animals in framed panels around a large hippopotamus, with Dutch verses beneath each image.

The animals, children! that these prints show you, And inhabit water, earth or air, Being called bisexual, deserve in…

Johannes Bouwer, 1805

Hand-colored print of a valley with thatched houses, palm trees, a dirt road with figures, and a mountain range under clouds.

Landscape with a settlement and a Sundanese woman with children

Johan Conrad Greive, 1865

Sheet of thirty-six small hand-colored woodcut vignettes of women with rhyming captions, 1831.

See what each image and work in this print signifies / And choose / O children, the best for yourselves

Erven H. Rynders, 1831

Drawing of a man cleaning fish at a table while two children and a cat stand in a wooden interior.

Interior with man cleaning fish and two children

Abraham Delfos, 1741

Engraving of two children in a chariot drawn by a flying dragon above clouds, with a rider scene and armor below.

Two children in a triumphal chariot pulled by dragons

Jacques Le Roy, 1771

Hand-colored woodcut sheet with a grid of small Dutch genre scenes and verses showing people, carts, animals and soldiers.

Learn / children! through these print scenes / Artificial reading / while playing

Erven H. Rynders, 1831

Pencil sketch of a reclining woman in a headscarf beside a seated child, with loosely drawn figures in the background.

Resting women and children

Zacharias Blijhooft, 1667

Engraved cartouche with an empty oval centre, flanked by two nude putti and garlands of fruit, with cherub heads.

Cartouche flanked by two children

H. Picart, 1628

Hand-colored woodcut with five medallions showing men representing hearing, smell, taste, touch and sight, framed by animals

O children observe your duty, / To the amusement ordained by God

Erven H. Rynders, 1831

Engraving of Christ seated under a colonnade blessing children while mothers and apostles gather around him.

Christ blessing the children (Suffer the little children to come unto me)

Peeter Baltens, 1570

Pencil and watercolor drawing of a woman kneeling beside two small children on the floor, with stacked chairs behind.

Woman with two sick or starving children

Hans Peter Lindeburg, 1902

Engraving of a man embraced by children, a woman with a toddler nearby, a cart, a village house and a chicken in the foregrou

Two children welcome their father with an embrace

Reinier Vinkeles, 1789

Grey wash drawing of rubble from a fallen church tower in Westzaan, with workers among stones and a brick church behind.

Depiction of the ruins of the tower in Westzaan that collapsed on January 1, 1843, by which disaster a house with man…

Herman Thepass, 1843

Pencil drawing of a family in an interior: a seated man, a standing older woman, and three children around a table.

Interior with man, woman and three children around a table

Henk Henriët, 1913

Watercolor of two children in 17th-century dress, one with a hoop and stick, the other with a hat and cane.

Gerrit and Cornelis Schellinger as children

Gesina ter Borch, 1675

Engraved title page with ornate scrolled cartouche, putti, fruit garlands and bearded men framing Dutch inscription text.

Cartouche in strapwork frame with children, fruit garlands and four men. Title page of series of surface decorations

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1556

Hand-colored print of children making music and studying a globe with adults in a garden, with a dog nearby.

Children make music and learn geography

Frédéric Charles Wentzel, 1850

Lithograph with six vignettes of children, a woman, a horse rider, a hunter with dogs, and a man carrying a box.

Six representations of children, hunters and other figures

Alexandre-Gabriel Decamps, 1829

Small print of children playing by a basin under a tree, with a hat on the ground, after a Decamps design.

Children blow against a boat in a tub

Adolphe Mouilleron, 1830

Hand-colored print of children playing with toy soldiers at a table in a room with green curtains and a dog.

Children playing with small soldiers

Frédéric Charles Wentzel, 1850

Hand-coloured children's sheet with rows of labelled animal illustrations from A to Z, including elephant, zebra and giraffe.

The little zoo for children

Franciscus Antonius Beersmans, 1866

Lithograph of children playing with swords and toy figures under a tree, with a village street and church steeple behind them

Playing children in the fifteenth century

David van der Kellen, 1859

Colored print of children dancing around a decorated maypole on a village path, with houses and trees behind them.

Children playing near a maypole

Frédéric Charles Wentzel, 1850

Pencil sketch of a seated boy and head studies of a girl, a bearded man and a veiled woman on cream paper.

Studies of children and a few adults

Cornelis Kruseman, 1814

Engraved domestic scene of a seated mother with a toddler, a boy holding a mirror, and a girl with a dog in an interior.

Mother with three children in interior

Pieter van der Beek, 1815

Hand-colored genealogical chart with heraldic shields, crests and inscribed scrolls linking a family tree, dated 1738.

Coat of arms chart with the coats of arms of the six children of Jan van de Poll and Margaretha Rendorp and those of…

Gerrit de Broen, 1738

Engraving of a widow with two sons beside a draped coffin, with a sword, helmet and portrait medallion, 1782.

Widow Bentinck with her children by the bier of her husband, 1781

Barent de Bakker, 1782

Lithograph of a seated mother holding an infant, a young girl playing with a dog, and a woman writing in a domestic interior.

Mother with three children and a dog

Chrétien, 1822

Engraved portrait of a woman in a feathered hat with two young children beside a carved armchair and columns.

Portrait of Maria Carolina of Bourbon-Two Sicilies with her two children

Adolphe Alexandre Joseph Caron, 1829

Pencil sketch of a woman and two children in a kitchen with a hearth, table, and window.

Woman and two children in the kitchen

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

Engraved print of two women and two children at a doorway, with a floral garland and crown on the sill below.

Mother with young girl and two children in a window opening

Chrétien, 1822

Daumier lithograph of a distressed father holding a crying baby while two children cry nearby, 1838.

Father with three crying children

Honoré Daumier, 1838

Pencil sketch of a seated woman and two children in a domestic interior with a fireplace and table.

Woman with two children in interior

Hendrik Valkenburg, 1836

Woodcut print of a large rooster with hens and a farmhouse in a grassy landscape, framed by a decorative border.

Come children see this brisk rooster, / Who urges you to Industry

Monogrammist LBM, 1806

Engraving of a crowded procession with soldiers, horses, women, children and a wagon loaded with barrels and bundles.

Part of a triumphal procession with soldiers, women, children and equipment

Pietro Sante Bartoli, 1680

Lithograph of a flat landscape with a shed, moored boat, two seated children, a standing figure and a distant windmill.

Landscape with children by barn and boat

Jan Weissenbruch, 1863

Poster of a crouching naked toddler playing with a paper boat on stylized green and blue waves, with Dutch lettering.

Children's stamps & children's postcards for the benefit of 't Bescherming- en hulp - Behoevende kind 1927-1928

Tjipke Visser, 1927

Engraved print of a woodland scene with children, an old man and a bear, framed by a border of birds, fish and flowers.

Elisha curses annoying children

Adriaen Collaert, 1582

Brown wash drawing of four children on a flat boat by a canal, looking up at trees and a building behind a fence.

Four children look from a barge at a sparrow's nest

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Engraved title page with a central cartouche of Dutch text, framed by strapwork, putti, fruit garlands and bearded figures, 1

Title page: cartouche in framing of strapwork with children, fruit garlands and four men

Johannes of Lucas van Doetechum, 1556

Etching of a narrow stone street under an archway, with three children playing and two women watching from above.

Cityscape with three children playing on the street, under the watchful eye of two women

Florimond Buyck, 1870

Etching of children playing skittles in a landscape, framed by a rococo cartouche with French verses below.

Children playing skittles

Jacques Bacheley, 1722

Lithograph of a village street with a horseman, dogs, men at a bench under a tree, and a church tower in the distance.

Playing children

Jean Augustin Daiwaille, 1820

Etching of a man in a headwrap with downcast eyes, with a woman and a child's heads behind and beside him.

Children's heads

Marius Richters, 1888

Grey wash drawing of a domestic interior with a woman, a child, an elderly seated woman, and two children at a table.

Interior with a family with children

Jan Josef Horemans, 1692

Ink and wash drawing of a nursemaid with a parasol walking with two children in long dresses.

Babysitter with two children under a broken umbrella

Christiaan Andriessen, 1806

Four red chalk studies of a child's hands and feet in varied poses on a pale sheet.

Two children's hands and feet

Jean François Janinet, 1773

Red chalk print of six children's heads, two shown schematically on grids, with a French title block above.

Title print with six children's heads, two of which in schematic representation

Roubillac, 1784

Etched frieze of playing putti and children with garlands of grapes, a flower basket and a balustrade.

Frieze with playing children and putti

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Red chalk sketch of two children with a goat on a path, with trees, a fence and birds in the sky.

Two walking children with a goat

Moses ter Borch, 1653

Etching of children wading in shallow sea water, one carrying a toddler and another guiding a toy sailboat near the shore.

Children of the Sea

Carel Lodewijk Dake, 1888

Etching of playing putti and children among fruit garlands and grapes, with a bird flying above, in a horizontal frieze.

Frieze with eight playing children and putti

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Pen drawing of children playing in a town square before a tower and arched building, with a small dog at right.

Playing children in front of the Town Hall Tower and the school in Zwolle

Moses ter Borch, 1656

Sepia photograph of Kandyan children and a man on a hillside, beside a landscape view of wooded hills and a valley.

Kandyan children

Henry William Cave, 1900

Etched frieze of playing putti, one winged, on a stone ledge beside garlands of fruit and foliage.

Frieze with playing children and a putto

Cornelis Schut, 1618

Pen and brown ink sketch of children playing near a building with steps, with figures and a hatted adult in a street scene.

Playing children in front of the side of a building in Zwolle

Moses ter Borch, 1656

Grey wash drawing of a goat, sheep and lamb with a figure beside a thatched shelter and tree, with hills behind.

Landscape with Two Children Playing with a Goat, a Lamb and a Sheep

Simon van der Does, 1682

Etching of playful nude children, one swinging on ropes while others sit on a stone ledge beside a column and foliage.

Swinging children

Cornelis Schut, 1618

A hurdy-gurdy player followed by children at the door of a house

Rembrandt van Rijn, 1641

Etching of mounted officers watching executions under trees with hanging bodies, captives and soldiers in the foreground, wit

De Koning doot en moort de protestante leeraars vrouwen en kinderen. The King causeth to kill the Protestants ministe…

Romeyn de Hooghe, 1688

Engraved portrait of a white-haired man in a dark coat and cravat, printed on a foxed sheet with a caption below.

Portret van John George Children Esqr

William Raddon, 1839

Etched page of four ornamental children's bed designs with cherubs, draped canopies, a chariot and a shell-shaped bed.

Four Designs for Children’s Beds in: Nuove invenzioni d’ornamenti d’architettura

Filippo Passarini, 1698

Night scene of children and adults in silhouette gathered around a bonfire on a road beside a tree and fence.

Children clustered around a Saint Martin’s bonfire

Christiaan Andriessen, 1805

Japanese woodblock print of a woman and two children feeding chickens beneath bare plum branches, with calligraphy.

Woman and Children Feeding Chicken

Keisai Eisen, 1825