Centsprint 2 Prints for the benefit of the general 2, Crafts and Companies
€50,00
Centsprint 2 Prints for the benefit of the general 2, Crafts and Companies, published by A.W. Sijthoff in Leiden. Sijthoff started the publication of this series of prints in 1854 and was active as a publisher until around 1891. The series “Prints for the benefit of the general” consisted of twenty prints. This was the third series of prints that was issued with the approval of the Society for the Nut of General. The print is emphatically educational in nature and shows, tools 2x, the gardener, the plumber, the blacksmith, and the merchant. The dimensions are 43 x 35 cm, the top is in reasonable condition, some reinforcements have been applied with acid-free tape on the back.
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A children’s, also known as cent print or little boys sheet, is a cheap printed sheet (for sale for a cent), which was issued through door-to-door selling, with pictures and text. The text could consist of prose or verses. As a precursor to the comic, the pictures and talks told a story, for example about saints and heroes, but fairy tales were also sold as a cartoon. The cents prints were not only read, but also read or retold, with the pictures then being shown. Centsprints served for more than three centuries as a newspaper, as an illustrated source of stories or as a cartoon with texts. Those who didn’t have the money for books could always buy a picture for a cent at pedestrians, hawkers or in stores. The children’s print shows a representation of fairly rough wood-carving figures (later prints did use wood engravings and lithography) on not very good paper. The pictures are sometimes colored: with some orange or purple red and blue, sometimes supplemented with yellow – random color smears, applied with a coarse brush, thumb print or shifted template. Color printing will become more professional in later time. In addition to prints about all sorts of manners and customs, proverbs, stories from literature from the Middle Ages and the 16th-18th centuries, there are also illustrations about professions and crafts, folk tales, moralistic narratives, children’s games, and topics from the Bible, history, geography , in addition to ABC reading examples, strange people, soldiers, vehicles and famous people. The prints, in which the adventures of the main characters are depicted in 8, 16, 24 or even 48 different scenes, can be regarded as precursors of the comic strip. Although many pennies appear to be aimed at children, it is unknown whether they were made specifically for children at the time.
