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  • A woman with young children sitting in a hop field during harvesting. Stipple engraving with etching by G. Stodart, c. 1845, after W. Witherington.
  • Five people sitting and standing around a tea-table, one of them a mother with a child. Lithograph by J. Fischer, 1803.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • Childbirth, midwifery and care of the new born infant. Lithograph by G. Lopéz (?) after Fray B. de Sahagún.
  • A woman changing her child's nappy, her husband is watching them in an amused manner. Mezzotint.
  • A woman changing her child's nappy, her husband is watching them in an amused manner. Mezzotint.
  • François Mauriceau. Line engraving by J.A. Boener, 1680.
  • A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.
  • A woman wraps a new born baby in swaddling clothes while the mother recovers in bed, the midwife mops her brow. Colour etching by C.M. Metz after F. Barocci.
  • Sarawak: a Kayan woman carrying her child in a sling. Photograph.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • A woman sewing in a pleasant domestic interior, her baby sleeps sweetly in its cradle. Aquatint by J. Sartain after G. Dou.
  • A woman decorating a girl's hat with hops in a hop field during harvest. Stipple engraving with etching by H. Bourne, c. 1845, after W. Witherington.
  • A woman dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Coloured lithograph by A.C. Ledoux (?).
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • A mother holding her newborn baby, with a serious expresssion as she realizes its vulnerability to deadly infectious diseases; with a bottle of vaccine against diphtheria and tetanus, advertising vaccination against those diseases. Colour process print by Sadolin, 195-.
  • 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 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.
  • 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 hospital ward showing sick patients being tended to by medical staff, after a quote from the Bible (Matt. 25.36). Line engraving by C. Galle.
  • An anxious mother checking on her sleeping baby. Coloured lithograph by E. de Barescut after Lebot.
  • Krishna as an infant on Yasoda's lap playing with a cow and a calf. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1896.
  • An anxious mother checking on her sleeping baby. Coloured lithograph by E. de Barescut after Lebot.
  • Krishna as an infant sitting on Yasoda's lap with a female attendant. Chromolithograph by R. Varma, 1895.