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"inscription": "Signed and dated in upper left corner: FECIT PETRVS VANDER BORCHT. 1560",
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"inscription": "With publisher\u2019s address: BERTOLEMEES DE MOMPRE EXCVDEBAT",
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"inscription": "In black ink on verso: \"ZBiernacki 1902\"",
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"inscription": "Watermark: post-horn in a coat of arms, very similar to Briquet 7862 (Brabant 1593 and Middelbourg 1591) but larger (54 x 43 mm).",
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"title": "In Vino Veritas (In Wine, Truth)",
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"did_you_know": "Just as today, the couple receives gifts from wedding guests; here, a clerk at the table counts coins while a line of guests wait their turn to present gifts including a salt cellar, stool, candleholder, stockpot, butter churn, distaff, bellows, tongs, and pots.",
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"citation": "Miedema, Hessel. \u201cFeestende Boeren - Lachende Dorpers. Bij Twee Recente Aanwinsten van Het Rijksprentenkabinet.\u201d Bulletin van Het Rijksmuseum 29, no. 4 (1981): 191\u2013213.",
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"citation": "Paul Vandenbroeck: \u00ab Verbeeck's Peasant Weddings: A Study of Iconography and Social Function \u00bb in Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, Vol. 14, no. 2 (1984).",
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"citation": "Jongh, E. de, and Ger Luijten. Mirror of everyday life: genreprints in the Netherlands, 1550-1700. Amsterdam: Rijksmuseum, 1997.",
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"citation": "Bruegel, Pieter, and Nadine Orenstein. Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Drawings and Prints. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2001.",
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"citation": "Manfred Sellink: Bruegel, L\u2019\u0153uvre complet, peintures, dessins, gravures, 2007.",
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