Catchpenny print

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

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.[1]

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 [2]
  • Jan Christoffel Jegher [3]
  • Pieter van Loon [4]
  • Dirk & Hermanus van Lubeek [5]
  • Hendrik Numan [6]
  • Jan & Gerrit Oortman [7]
  • Herman Roozen (makes modern-day versions of centsprenten) [8]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Rijksmuseum. "From Players to Consumers: Board Games as Tools of Consumer Socialization". Retrieved 2026-05-22. Most of these games were published by the same printers that were producing and selling catchpenny prints (centsprenten) in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
  2. ↑ "Alexander van Cranendoncq". lambiek.net.
  3. ↑ "Jan Christoffel Jegher". lambiek.net.
  4. ↑ "Pieter van Loon". lambiek.net.
  5. ↑ "Dirk van Lubeek". lambiek.net.
  6. ↑ "Hendrik Numan". lambiek.net.
  7. ↑ "Jan Oortman". lambiek.net.
  8. ↑ "Jan Oortman". lambiek.net.
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