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  • A male dwarf, playing the violin to a family in a rural setting. Etching by P.S. Lamborne after A. van Ostade.
  • A woman and three chidren are sitting by the side of a track with a basket and flagon nearby. Lithograph by T. Fairland.
  • A family round a table with a young woman feeding her baby with her mother preparing a meal. Etching by Ch. Courtry after L. Lhermitte.
  • A family round a table with a young woman feeding her baby with her mother preparing a meal. Etching by Ch. Courtry after L. Lhermitte.
  • A family are saddened by the sale of their pet lamb. Engraving by C. Rolls after W. Collins, 1813.
  • A cottager returns to his family with two rabbits he has shot. Coloured process print after George Morland.
  • A health inspector dismayed to discover that a mother thinks her child has been vaccinated because he has been butted by a cow. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1877.
  • Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • A doctor asking his patients husband how she is, he replies (amidst a devasted room) that he's not sure but she certainly has a temper. Wood engraving by H ..., 1904.
  • Animal husbandry: poultry
  • A snobbish mother resistant to her daughter's doctor using a vaccine from their neighbour's child. Wood engraving by G. Du Maurier, 1872.
  • A physician bandaging the hand of a boy, who is surrounded by his large family. Heliogravure by Dujardin after P.A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret.
  • Dr. J. Alibert taking serum from a servant's baby to vaccinate the child of Mme Desbordes-Valmore. Photograph, 1938, of a painting by C. Desbordes, 1822.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • Helwan, Egypt; rural smallholding
  • Grandmother feeding child
  • The tree of temperance, showing benefits caused by healthy living. Coloured lithograph, 1872.
  • Woman with pails going to collect water in rural area, Zambia
  • Women making lace. Watercolour after Q. van Brekelenkam.
  • A rustic cottage in which an old woman sits by the fire and four children gathered around a barrel of water attempt to blow a toy boat across it. Chromolithograph after T.Webster.
  • A rustic cottage in which an old woman sits by the fire and four children gathered around a barrel of water attempt to blow a toy boat across it. Chromolithograph after T.Webster.