Catchpenny print

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.

A catchpenny print depicting the rescue of Jonge Thomas's crew in Table Bay

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 ^[1]
• Jan Christoffel Jegher ^[2]
• Pieter van Loon ^[3]
• Dirk & Hermanus van Lubeek ^[4]
• Hendrik Numan ^[5]
• Jan & Gerrit Oortman ^[6]
• Herman Roozen (makes modern-day versions of centsprenten) ^[7]

Image Gallery

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  The Story of Little Red Riding Hood
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  The Fox and the Stork
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  Monkeys and dogs

See also

• Épinal print