75/2046 [Prints and drawings]. Smits, J.J. (19th cent.). "Kraen Kinders werken den wyn, Voeren voor ieder wie magh zyn, Heeren Kooplieden Borgers te gaar/ Wy UL Wenschen een zalig nieujaar. Nous sommes Enfans de la Grue, nous travaillons le Vin Cru, pour les M.M. Negotiants & Bourgois aimés, nous vous souhaitons une heureuse année." Lithograph w. two 4-line lithogr. captions in Dutch and French below image, 18,6x23,3 cm., signed and dated "1811" in lower right corner below image on the stone and with a lithogr. line at the bottom reading "De kraen is gebaut An: 1546 is afgebroeken 1811".

- Doubled; 3 old vertical folds.

= A rare New Year's wish presented by the "Kraan kinderen" of the old crane in the harbour of Antwerp. The "Kraan kinderen" is the name used for the young and often short labourers treading the wheels of a crane to lift wine (and other heavy loads such as sacks of grain and salt) from ships onto the quay.