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  • A schoolroom; illustrating Biblical proverbs on the necessity of the discipline of children. Engraving by H. Goltzius.
  • A woman teaching an infant to read; representing grammar. Engraving by A. Vallée after M. de Vos.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of the chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
  • An opinionated child ignores his parents; representing the faculty of obstinacy in phrenology. Steel engraving, 1847, after H. Bruyères.
  • Middlesex House of Correction: a man is holding a birch in his hand as he stands over a shaped wooden plank set near a window for flogging boys; a man and a woman look on. Wood engraving after M. Fitzgerald, 1874..
  • A procession of blind and physically disabled people; allegory about sticks: how children are afraid of the rod but disadvantaged adults come to rely on it. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563?.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • The young Christ lectures the doctors of the Temple. Engraving by E. Rouargue.