https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-WechselDerTage/pages/108-seaside/

A setting for a poem (see link) about keeping a sense of childish joy and wonder as we grow older.

Everyone on this beach is fully clothed, including shoes and socks, which suggests to me a somewhat restrained sense of joy and wonder.

No artist or engraver credited. And is that a seagull eating a squirrel at upper left?

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Tiny tiny shell stuck in a small shell.

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