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  • A school for mothers / by Evelyn M. Bunting [and others].
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-west at the main building, happy children dancing round a statue of Flora [?]. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • A psychologist asking a large, aggressive looking man to talk about his mother. Reproduction after a drawing by F. Reynolds, 1938.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, a busy scene in the street. Coloured engraving by N. Parr after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • HIV & AIDS : information about mothers and children with HIV infection / written by Rosie Claxton for the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A physician taking a young woman's pulse, her mother is standing behind them, a basket for a urine flask is on the floor. Collotype after J. Steen.
  • Rizpah keeps watch in the tranquil night over the decaying bodies of her sons. Mezzotint by R. Dunkarton and J.M.W. Turner, 1812, after the latter.
  • A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, a busy scene in the street. Coloured engraving by N. Parr after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • A soldier confiscates a baby from its mother in the night, because the baby has violated the curfew. Coloured lithograph by Cham.
  • A seated Greek woman on an obstetrical stool being held in position by her husband while giving birth aided by a midwife, another attendant dresses the first baby. Line engraving by A. Tardieu after N. Maréchal.
  • A doctor vaccinating children in a clinic, other mothers and children are waiting, in the background is a man getting serum from a cow. Photogravure after J. Scalbert, 1890.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery. Mezzotint by S. Gimber, 1865, after D. Woolstenhome.
  • A school for mothers / by Evelyn M. Bunting [and others].
  • A school for mothers / by Evelyn M. Bunting [and others].
  • A Breton woman relaxing in a cupboard-bed after giving birth, she is surrounded by a group of Breton women and her husband. Etching.
  • The widow of Zarephath seeks assistance from the prophet Elijah; her son has fallen into a coma. Engraving, c. 17th century.
  • The Middlesex Hospital, London: in the foreground a patient is helped from his sickbed towards his welcoming family by a surgeon and his assistant. Etching after A. Mills.
  • A mother sits on a stool nursing an infant in her arms outside her simple house suggesting she is supporting herself and has avoided AIDS; an AIDS prevention advertisement by the AIDS Control Programme, Ministry of Health, Uganda. Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A queen dressed in blue, representing mercury, in a crowned alchemical flask. Watercolour painting by E.A. Ibbs.
  • Solomon judges the case of the two harlots. Colour etching by C. Ploos van Amstel, 1782, after L. van Leyden.
  • The Royal Infirmary with figures and coat of arms, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by P. Fourdrinier after P. Sandby.
  • The Evelina Hospital, Southwark: a mother and daughter visiting a girl in hospital at Christmas. Coloured process print, 1882, after C. J. Staniland.
  • A Spanish nobleman congratulating his wife on the birth of a child, the court are also in attendance. Etching by A. Lataurze(?) after F. Gonzalez Tavé.
  • Edward Jenner vaccinating a young child, held by its mother, with a man behind taking cowpox from a cow. Chromolithograph.
  • Boer War: an elderly woman sitting outside with her son who is a patient at Netley Hospital. Halftone after a photograph.
  • Donde vá mamà?.
  • Foundling Hospital: above, the achievement of arms, below, Captain Coram and several children, carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by T. Cook, 1809, after W. Hogarth, 1739.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • A wealthy Dutch man comforting his wife after giving birth, the child is being fed by a nursemaid. Engraving by P. Tanje, 1757, after C. Troost.