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  • The Virgin Mary and the infant Christ wrapped in swaddling clothes; Joseph sits nearby. Etching by F. de Grado.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child. Line engraving by MD after J.Ch., [16--].
  • A woman breast-feeding her child. Line engraving by MD after J.Ch., [16--].
  • A wet-nurse dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Watercolour by M. de Sate.
  • 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.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • Hyde Park, near Kensington Palace: ladies and children drinking from a spring and eating a picnic. Engraving by J. Godby, 1802, after Mary Spilsbury.
  • The holy family prepare to flee for Egypt. Engraving by F. Poilly after G. Reni.
  • A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
  • A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
  • The son of the Duke of Burgundy about to be breast fed by his mother Mary Adelaide of Savoy, 1707. Engraving.
  • The son of the Duke of Burgundy about to be breast fed by his mother Mary Adelaide of Savoy, 1707. Engraving.
  • Women on an island in the Strait of Magellan resisting capture or death at the hands of Dutch pirates under Olivier van Noort, 1598. Engraving by T. Bonnor, 1768.
  • The former Monmouth Street in London: women and children playing and men sitting and standing while smoking pipes, with items for sale hanging outside shops. Etching by George Cruikshank, 1839.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a mother with two children. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.
  • Peking, Pechili province, China: a mother with two children. Photograph by John Thomson, 1869.