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  • A mosquito attempting to attack a mosquito net under which a mother and child sleep: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, 2003.
  • A mother tucks a mosquito net around her child's bed: preventing malaria in children in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, 2010.
  • A father feeding his infant while the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A father feeding his infant while the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • Joseph Muff an unscrupulous physician and pharmacist giving child a mixture of medicine for her mother. Wood engraving by E. Landell after J. Leech, 1842 (?).
  • National week for the promotion of the health of mother and child in Djibouti in 2005. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, 2005.
  • A father feeding his infant whilst the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Pen drawing after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A mother looks forlornly at her sick child held by his father: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2008.
  • Philip Doddridge as a child being taught the Old and New Testaments by his mother using ceramic tiles around the fireplace. Engraving by G. Presbury after J. Franklin.
  • A family scene with the father sitting near the hearth smoking a pipe and the mother with a child on her lap and another standing with a toy cart. Etching and drypoint by Josef Israels.
  • 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 sacred scene of a mother and child who watches four maidens (one of them Sarasvati?) help a young Indian deity prepare food. Engraving by an Indian artist, 1800s.
  • A man vaccinating a child surrounded by its mother, family and other children waiting to be vaccinated. Process print after a lithograph (?) after a painting by L. Boilly, 1807.
  • AIDS and the family: a mother with a child, and a man embraced by his family as he dies of AIDS; advertising an evening in Berlin in 1994 for those affected by HIV and AIDS. Photocopy, 1994.
  • A squalid family scene: domestic items lying around, the mother reading, the father doing nothing, and the child drinking out of the teapot. Mezzotint by J. Scott after S.J.E. Jones.
  • A line of people shaking hands with a mother, father and their child representing a warning by the World Health Organization about who is at risk from AIDS . Colour lithograph, ca. 1995.
  • A doctor in the form of a shield with a smiling face holds hands with a mother and child; representing the protection conferred by the Infectious Diseases Prevention and Cure Law (Revised) in China in 2004. Colour lithograph, 2004.
  • A child has been told her face is dirty, so she wipes it clean while her mother holds the mirror and her brother points to her reflection. Engraving by J. Mitchell after Sir David Wilkie, R.A.
  • A mother tending her sick child, a boy washing his hands, a man bandaging a wound, a woman washing clothes and 2 people cleaning their teeth; one of a series of AIDS prevention educational posters issued by the Committed Communities Development Trust in Mumbai. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • A girl holding a teddy, a hand on the shoulder of another girl, a boy being tested with a stethoscope and a mother holding a child; advertisement for the 5th annual national Pediatric AIDS conference, September 6-8, 1989, Los Angeles, California. Colour lithograph by T. J. B., 1989.
  • Mr. Smith's exhibition : to be seen twihin, the Norfolk Giant 17 years of age, 7 feet 2 inches high, and weighs 20 stone, also the African Lady! in her native costume ... also Tom Thumb, the celebrated dwarf, also the extraordinary wonder of the creation, the infant male child & its mother with 2 perfect heads and necks on one body ...
  • Yoruba Ibedji (effigies) representing dead twins, Nigeria, West Africa. Some Yoruba tribes revere twins, who are thought to bring luck to household and tribe. The death of one is a great calamity. A wooden figure, called Ibedji, is made to house the spirit of the dead child and be a companion for the surviving twin. The Ibedji figure becomes a cult-object in the family and the mother tends it, offers it food and decks it with beads, cowrie shells, red camwood and other adornments.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • The art of midwifery improv'd. Fully and plainly laying down whatever instructions are requisite to make a compleat midwife. And the many errors in all the books hitherto written upon this subject clearly refuted ... : Also a new method, demonstrating, how infants ill situated in the womb ... may, by the hand only ... be turned into their right position, without hazarding the life of either mother or child / written in Latin by Henry à Daventer ; made English ; To which is added, a preface giving some account of this work, by an eminent physician.
  • A woman is being attacked by an eagle as she attempts to rescue her baby from the eagle's nest where it has been taken as possible food for the young birds. Mezzotint and etching after G. Dawe.
  • Kumasi, Ghana: a mother holding a child with unshaved hair; a group stands in the background. Photograph, 1920/1940 (?).
  • A smiling young woman with a child stretching out its arms in embrace. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • A smiling young woman with a child stretching out its arms in embrace. Watercolour by M. Bishop, 1958.
  • Africa: two women holding babies with tightly bandaged heads. Photograph, ca. 1936.
  • A mother sits at the bed of her dying child. Engraving by H. Cook after W. Perring.