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Catchpenny print. Children's print of various images without much coherence, showing animals like a duck, an elephant, a lady on horseback and a statue for Peter I the Great (Peter de Grote). The first print in the Erve Wijsmuller's second series of 28 children's prints, created with reused wood engravings of animals, people, buildings, professions, and means of transportation. The various images show little coherence. The captions are sometimes funny, but often little inventive. Despite that, prints from this series were widely distributed and they are in many public collections (Boerma pp. 304 306).Amsterdam, Erve Wijsmuller (1828 1851), mentioned on the print; numbered 'No. 1.' in upper right corner. 11 wood engravings of various sizes; hand coloured with yellow, red and blue; under each image a short caption; total: 340 x 425 mm; folded twice, a small hole where the two folds meet. Boerma p. 841 (Wijsmuller 1).…