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  • 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.
  • The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.
  • 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.
  • 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 boy kneeling, holding a baby bird found while raking corn, with a woman and a girl, each holding a rake. Lithograph.
  • A baby is being taken care of by a nun in a convent. Etching by Alberto Maso Gilli after himself.
  • A man holds out his hand to a weeping woman [Fidelia]. Engraving by Springwell after R. Corbould, 1792.
  • A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
  • Hôpital des Enfants-Trouvés, Paris: nuns and babies in the hospital. Lithograph by J.H. Marlet.
  • The infant Moses is brought before Pharaoh's daughter. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
  • Moses is retrieved from the Nile by Egyptian women. Engraving by S. Smith, 1786, after G. Robertson after F. Zuccarelli.
  • The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
  • Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Essex: perspective view. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffat.
  • Magdalen Asylum, Dublin: a collection in the chapel. Pencil drawing attributed to McCain.
  • Sir Thomas Bernard. Stipple engraving by C. Picart, 1815, after J. or T. Wright after J. Opie.
  • Martin Folkes. Engraving by T. Cook after W. Hogarth.
  • Dressed as a parish beadle John Bull carries a bundle inscribed "letter to the Queen" to the door of Lord Brougham. Coloured lithograph by H.B. (John Doyle), 1839.
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