Cent print with 5 x 4 woodcuts, about tom thumb, coming out of a cabbage. He is naughty and is sent away from school, teases his mother, falls into the milk, is eaten by a cow, the cow is sold with a clap, slaughtered by the butcher, and thumb crawls out. He enters the hospital, heals and becomes a rope maker. He steals food from a beggar, and eventually he drowns. Story with elements from the english fairy tale tom thumb. With two-line rhyming captions in dutch and french. Object Type: Catchpenny print. Date: between 1880 and 1911. Place of creation: Turnhout. Dimensions: height: 38 cm (14.9 in); width: 32 cm (12.5 in). Medium: woodcut print. Collection: Koninklijke Bibliotheek.
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