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Queen Victoria with the infant Princess Victoria on her lap. Mezzotint by G.H. Phillips after E. Cole, 1841.

The Virgin Mary adoring Christ as an infant. Line engraving by G.D. Picchianti after F. Petrucci after Titian.

A woman sitting outside with a friend breast-feeding her child, a goat accompanies them. Etching by D. Deuchar.

A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.

Five people sitting and standing around a tea-table, one of them a mother with a child. Lithograph by J. Fischer, 1803.

A woman holding her child while a servant holds a bowl of food to feed her. Engraving by A. Nargeot after himself after J. Verkolje the elder, 1675.

A vision of motherhood with a small child. Heliotype by Arents after L. Marqueste.

A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.

A woman holding three children one of whom is breast-feeding from her; representing charity. Line engraving by T. Verkruis after C. Sacconi after G. Reni.

A Greenwich Pensioner recounting his exploits to a small boy, showing him a print called "The blowing up of the Orient": his mother and a print pedlar (?) look on. Engraving by T. Holles, 1845, after E. M. Ward.

A woman breast feeding her baby, with a dog sitting next to them in a rural setting. Etching by C. Lewis, 1848, after Sir E. Landseer, 1837.

A poor woman in a dingy attic, surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III after J. Pierre.

King Robert the Bruce saves the life of a mother and her new born infant on a battlefield in Ireland. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1842, after W. Allan, 1840.

A woman washing her baby. Woodcut after W. Strang, 1904.

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A woman breast feeding her baby, with a dog sitting next to them in a rural setting. Etching by C. Lewis, 1848, after Sir E. Landseer, 1837.

A poor woman in a dingy attic, surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III after J. Pierre.

A Greenwich Pensioner recounting his exploits to a small boy, showing him a print called "The blowing up of the Orient": his mother and a print pedlar (?) look on. Engraving by T. Holles, 1845, after E. M. Ward.

King Robert the Bruce saves the life of a mother and her new born infant on a battlefield in Ireland. Engraving by J. Burnet, 1842, after W. Allan, 1840.

A woman washing her baby. Woodcut after W. Strang, 1904.