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Mothers

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  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • HIV & AIDS : information about mothers and children with HIV infection / written by Rosie Claxton for the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • Solomon judges the case of the two harlots and their babies. Line engraving by J. Eisenhardt, 1847, after E. von Steinle.
  • The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.
  • A couple in animal skins (Adam and Eve?) journeying with three children after the expulsion. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

    Procreate Project | Date: 2017
    • Books

    Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

    | Date: 2009
    • Ephemera

    London Lesbian Line : funded by London Boroughs Grants Committee... : 071 251 6911, minicom 071 253 0924.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Books

    Mom has cancer and she is dying.

    | Date: [2018?]
    • Books

    I still want to be a mom : an inspirational guide to help women struggling with infertility / Shara Hutchinson.

    Hutchinson, Shara | Date: [2018]
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