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Sick children

Images

  • A ghostly skeleton trying to strangle a sick child; representing diphtheria. Watercolour by R. Cooper.
  • Children with orthopedic disorders. Twenty six pen drawings.
  • Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.
  • A sick child sitting on her father's knee while her mother prepares some soup for her, a dead rabbit is lying on the floor. Chromolithograph after J. Clark.
  • A nun supporting a sick child; representing the work of the Herwonnen Levenskracht movement in helping tuberculous children. Colour lithograph by M. Wiegman, ca. 1930.
  • A physician examining the children of a poor Italian family. Lithograph by F. van Loo after E. de Jans.
  • A convalescent girl, lying in bed, holding a bunch of flowers. Photograph by Ernest G. Boon, ca. 1904.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • A physician examining a gypsy child with a stethoscope outside a tent on the side of the road. Halftone by Swain after W. Small, 1898.
  • A physician in his surgery examining a little boy's tongue, his sister waits for him holding a large umbrella. Wood engraving after H.B. Roberts.
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    An aggressive woman bullying a child who is too ill to work. Pen drawing.

    | Reference: 15722i
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    A physician bandaging the hand of a boy, who is surrounded by his large family. Heliogravure by Dujardin after P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret.

    Dagnan-Bouveret, Pascal-Adolphe-Jean, 1852-1929. | Reference: 21872i
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    H.R.H. The Princess Louise, with many patients, nurses and doctors in a ward of the Victoria Hospital for Sick Children, Chelsea. Wood engraving by T. W. Lascelles, 1876.

    Lascelles, Thomas W., active 1876-1893. | Date: 17 June 1876 | Reference: 20224i
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    A doctor attempting to talk to an ill child and being completely misunderstood. Reproduction of a drawing after L. Baumer, 1926.

    Baumer, Lewis, 1870- | Date: 1926 | Reference: 15455i
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    A convalescent girl, lying in bed, holding a bunch of flowers. Photograph by Ernest G. Boon, ca. 1904.

    Boon, Ernest G., 1864-1959. | Date: 1904 | Reference: 44053i
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