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Catchpenny print (Dutch ''centsprent'') is the name given to a type of cheap, mass-produced sheets printed on one side and illustrated with simple images, that were sold in the Netherlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The catchpenny prints can be regarded as source material for research of text and language; of the daily life of our ancestors plying trades (that have disappeared), children's games, transport, fashion, role patterns, housing and housekeeping; tilling the land, poverty and wealth; of values and standards and pedagogical views and of image with illustration techniques and styles. They are also regarded as predecessors to the modern-day comic strip.
File:Geschiedenis van Rood-Kapje-Catchpenny print-Borms 0284.jpeg, The Story of Little Red Riding Hood
File:De vos en de ooievaar-Catchpenny print-PRENT 0055.jpeg, The Fox and the Stork
File:Apen- en hondentaferelen-Catchpenny print-SMC K 0023.jpeg, Monkeys and dogs
Catchpenny prints in The Netherlands
, Europeana blog.
1280 catchpenny prints from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at the Hague
Catchpennyprint collection
at the Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
Catchpenny prints
at the Stichting Geschiedenis Kinder- en Jeugdliteratuur
Background on catchpenny prints
on the Koniklijke Bibliotheek website (in Dutch) Printmaking History of comics Culture of the Netherlands {{Printmaking-stub
Catchpenny print (Dutch ''centsprent'') is the name given to a type of cheap, mass-produced sheets printed on one side and illustrated with simple images, that were sold in the Netherlands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
The catchpenny prints can be regarded as source material for research of text and language; of the daily life of our ancestors plying trades (that have disappeared), children's games, transport, fashion, role patterns, housing and housekeeping; tilling the land, poverty and wealth; of values and standards and pedagogical views and of image with illustration techniques and styles. They are also regarded as predecessors to the modern-day comic strip.
List of ''centsprent'' artists
* Alexander Cranendoncq * Jan Christoffel Jegher * Pieter van Loon * Dirk & Hermanus van Lubeek * Hendrik Numan * Jan & Gerrit Oortman * Herman Roozen (makes modern-day versions of ''centsprenten'')Image Gallery
See also
* Épinal printReferences
* Karin Vingerhoets,Catchpenny prints in The Netherlands
, Europeana blog.
External links
1280 catchpenny prints from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek at the Hague
Catchpennyprint collection
at the Erfgoedbibliotheek Hendrik Conscience
Catchpenny prints
at the Stichting Geschiedenis Kinder- en Jeugdliteratuur
Background on catchpenny prints
on the Koniklijke Bibliotheek website (in Dutch) Printmaking History of comics Culture of the Netherlands {{Printmaking-stub