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.

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
 * Jan Christoffel Jegher
 * Pieter van Loon
 * Dirk & Hermanus van Lubeek
 * Hendrik Numan
 * Jan & Gerrit Oortman
 * Herman Roozen (makes modern-day versions of centsprenten)