Cent print with 5 x 4 framed woodcuts, with images from the life of a villain who does not want to be good: he falls out of the cradle, gets a beating and is chased out of school. Then he apprentices with a baker and a tailor, but that doesn't work out. He becomes a soldier, deserts and is imprisoned. He escapes and joins a gang, is captured, escapes again, kills a merchant, is shipwrecked and finally ends up guillotined. Contains two-line rhyming captions in dutch and french. Object Type: Catchpenny print. Date: between 1833 and 1880. Place of creation: Turnhout. Dimensions: height: 43 cm (16.9 in); width: 33 cm (12.9 in). Medium: woodcut print. Collection: Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
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