Wellcome uses cookies.

Read our policy
Skip to main content
Wellcome Collection
  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
Sign in to your library account
Library account
Concept

Fertility

We’re working to improve the information on this page. You can join our user panel or submit an idea that would help you use our website.

Images

  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Engraving by E. Baudet, 1695, after F. Albani.
  • A tree bearing fruit labelled with virtues; representing the life of the Christian. Coloured etching by J. Couse, c. 1780, after J. Bakewell.
  • Ceres on a chariot with children representing the months March, April and May, surrounded by forms of natural abundance, corybantes and cherubs, symbolising the element earth. Etching by A. Tempesta, 1592.
  • De la grossesse et accouchement des femmes, du gouvernement dicelles et moyen de survenir aux accidents qui leur arrivent, ensemble de la nourriture des enfans / Par Jacques Guillemeau. Reveu [sic] et augmenté de figures en taille douce, et de plusieurs maladies secrettes. Avec un traitte de l'impuissance, par Charles Guillemeau.
  • Nymphs in a field among cornucopias; workers scythe wheat; representing horticulture and agriculture. Stipple engraving by J. Chapman, c. 1810, after H. Corbould.
  • Diana of the Ephesians (Ephesian Artemis), with a shepherd boy playing pipes. Etching by P.A. Novelli.
  • Cybele, Bacchus, Ceres and Flora on a chariot drawn by lions surrounded by all forms of natural abundance and cherubs: symbolising the element earth. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1796, after F. Albani.
  • Sarasvati sitting on lotuses plying her vina. Watercolour drawing.
  • The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the younger after J. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.
  • A naked man walks through a rocky landscape with a scythe; representing summer. Etching by J. Coelemans, 1703, after L. Cardi da Cigoli.
All images (10)

Works

    • Books

    The rhythm of sterility and fertility in women : a discussion of the physiological, practical, and ethical aspects of the discoveries of Drs. K. Ogino (Japan) and H. Knaus (Germany) regarding the periods when conception is impossible and when possible / by Leo J. Latz.

    Latz, Leo J. (Leo John), 1903- | Date: [1954], ©1954
    • Books

    Demographic trends in the European region : health and social implications / edited by Alan D. Lopez and Robert L. Cliquet.

    | Date: [1984], ©1984
    • Books

    A child against all odds / Robert Winston.

    Winston, Robert M. L | Date: 2006
    • Books

    The global family planning revolution : three decades of population policies and programs / Warren C. Robinson and John A. Ross, editors.

    | Date: [2007], ©2007
    • Books

    Romania's 1966 anti-abortion decree : the demographic experience of the first decade / Bernard Berelson.

    Berelson, Bernard, 1912-1979 | Date: 1978
All works (307)

Wellcome Collection

183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

+44 (0)20 7611 2222
info@wellcomecollection.org

Getting here

Today’s opening times

  • Galleries
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Library
    closed
  • Café
    10:00 – 18:00
  • Shop
    10:00 – 18:00

Opening times

  • Visit us
  • What’s on
  • Stories
  • Collections
  • Get involved
  • About us
  • Contact us

  • Jobs
  • Media office
  • Developers
  • Privacy and terms
  • Modern slavery statement
Twitter
Facebook
Instagram
SoundCloud
YouTube
Tripadvisor

Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence