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The print is a woodcut made by the printmaker D.V. Lubeek. The print was published in Rotterdam by J.B. Ulrich. Ulrich was employed between 1816 and 1849. The print is of the "folk print" type (also called "cent print"). Folk prints are a special and easily recognizable type of print. They are simple and cheaply produced woodcuts. They were intended for people from all walks of life. In the Rijksmuseum we have the largest collection of folk prints in the world (more than 8,400) and I have documented these over the past year (they can be found on the website of the Rijksmuseum). The print that you have in your possession falls within a special branch of folk prints: the board games. These prints were really used for playing in the nineteenth century. It is the forerunner of the board game as we still know it today. The steamboat was a popular theme in the board games. In 1923 the Dutch Steamboat Company was founded and the steamboat was a fact in the Netherlands. With the board games, publishers and printmakers thus tapped into the hype surrounding this new means of transport. At least ten different steamboat games have been marketed by different publishers.
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