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  • Rama fighting with his sons with the help of Hanuman over a horse sacrifice. Watercolour drawing.
  • Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
  • A couple in animal skins (Adam and Eve?) journeying with three children after the expulsion. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • A father leaning over the head of a baby with the message 'If we fear to love, we are all suffering from AIDS. Time to Act ...'; an advertisement for the 6th World AIDS Day held in Rome on 1 December 1993 at the Palazzeto Sport, Falaminio. Colour lithograph.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Mezzotint after J.B. Greuze.
  • The birth of Henri of Navarre (Henry IV King of France). Line engraving by J.B. Pfitzer after L. Lafitte.
  • A mother in bed after having given birth; the midwife showing the baby to the father. Coloured stipple engraving, ca. 1800.
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Works

  • view A father leaning over the head of a baby with the message 'If we fear to love, we are all suffering from AIDS. Time to Act ...'; an advertisement for the 6th World AIDS Day held in Rome on 1 December 1993 at the Palazzeto Sport, Falaminio. Colour lithograph.
    • Pictures
    • Online

    A father leaning over the head of a baby with the message 'If we fear to love, we are all suffering from AIDS. Time to Act ...'; an advertisement for the 6th World AIDS Day held in Rome on 1 December 1993 at the Palazzeto Sport, Falaminio. Colour lithograph.

    | Date: 1993 | Reference: 675456i
    • Books

    White dads : a new anthology of stories, art & experiences told by people of color fathered by white men / Sarah Grace.

    | Date: [2016]
    • Books

    Growing up fatherless in antiquity / edited by Sabine R. Hübner and David M. Ratzan.

    | Date: 2009
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    Fractured memories : because demented people need love, too / Emily Page.

    Page, Emily | Date: [2016]
  • view Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.
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    Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.

    Rubens, Peter Paul, 1577-1640 | Reference: 18149i
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