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  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.
  • A naked witch flies to the sabbath mounted on a goat, while her companions continue to prepare their drugs. Process print after H. Baldung Grien.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • Three witches or Fates spinning, with bodies of babies tied up behind them. Etching by F. Goya, 1796/1798.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • An angel intervenes as Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac. Mezzotint.
  • An angel descends as Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac; the ram lurks in the bushes. Line engraving.
  • The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.
  • The angel intervenes as Abraham prepares to sacrifice Isaac. Engraving by S.A. Bolswert, c. 1620, after T. Rombouts.
  • Abraham and Isaac embrace in the wilderness, in the shock of their reprieve. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.
  • A boy angel appears as Abraham prepares to sacrifice his son. Lithograph by G. Sensi y Baldachi after A. del Sarto, 1529.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Drawing by F. Rosaspina, c. 1830, after G. Reni.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Chiaroscuro woodcut by J.B. Jackson, 1745, after J. Robusti, il Tintoretto.
  • The killing of the Egyptian firstborn by God. Coloured mezzotint by J. Martin, 1836, after himself.
  • The child Aaron being led away by Moses' father, after abandoning Moses in the bullrushes. Etching by C. Bouzonnet-Stella, 1672, after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • Mary and Joseph with Jesus through a wide landscape to Egypt. Etching by J. Callot.
  • The holy family prepare to flee for Egypt. Engraving by F. Poilly after G. Reni.
  • Mary and Joseph ride to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by H. Wierix..
  • Mary and Joseph walk to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Pitau, 1666, after S. François.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: foundling children outside a foundling hospital. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: foundling children outside a foundling hospital. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a lady's maid. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Canton (Guangzhou), Kwangtung province, China: a lady's maid. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.