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  • Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • A grotesque accouchement. Oil painting.
  • A midwife gives the Virgin Mary her first bath, Joachim looks and exclaims to the heavens where angels are celebrating her birth. Engraving by P.S. Bartoli after F. Albani.
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • Lying-in Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne: perspective view. Etching.
  • Hospice de la Maternité, Paris: facade and keyed floor and street plans. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1810.
  • A grotesque accouchement. Oil painting.
  • An Aku Mma doll.y. Ashanti, Ghana, West Africa.
  • A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
  • A woman giving birth aided by a surgeon who fumbles beneath a sheet to save the lady from embarassment. Wood engraving after a woodcut, 1711.
  • The byrth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke : Newly set furth, corrected and augmented. Whose co[n]tentes ye maye rede in the table of the booke, and most playnly in the prologue / By Thomas Raynold phisition.
  • A mother giving birth to a baby. Oil painting, 1800.
  • Four eagle-stone geodes. Woodcut, 1599.
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • A group of female travellers washing and taking care of a new born baby while the mother recovers in a tent. Coloured aquatint by C. Rugendas after G. Rugendas I, 1702.
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • Eight diagrams illustrating difficult births and obstetrical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • French Guiana: a woman about to deliver a baby receiving a vapour bath. Coloured photograph, ca. 1913.
  • Mary Toft (Tofts) appearing to give birth to rabbits in the presence of several surgeons and man-midwives sent from London to examine her. Etching by W. Hogarth, 1726.
  • Illustrations relating to cesarean operation.
  • The new born son of Philip V of Spain being held by his mother Marie Louise of Savoy, born Madrid 25 August 1707. Engraving, 1707.
  • Eight diagrams illustrating difficult births and obstetrical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • I. Sever. Pinaei De integritatis & corruptionis virginum notis : graviditate item & partu naturali mulierum, opuscula. II. Ludov. Bonacioli Enneas muliebris. III. Fel. Plateri De origine partium, earumque in utero conformatione. IV. Petri Gassendi De septo cordis pervio, observatio. V. Melchioris Sebizii De notis virginitatis.
  • Virgil and A. Pollio deep in conversation above a bustling town and harbour, Saloninius (Pollio's infant son) lies in a cradle at their feet. Woodcut after Virgil.
  • Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken in 1989
  • 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 cross-section of a pregnant woman's body in the final stages of labour. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1821.