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  • Queen Victoria with the infant Princess Victoria on her lap. Mezzotint by G.H. Phillips after E. Cole, 1841.
  • The Virgin Mary adoring Christ as an infant. Line engraving by G.D. Picchianti after F. Petrucci after Titian.
  • A woman sitting outside with a friend breast-feeding her child, a goat accompanies them. Etching by D. Deuchar.
  • A female servant holds a small child while its fashionably dressed mother touches its face on her way out. Wood engraving by J. Thompson, 1840, after D. Wilkie.
  • Five people sitting and standing around a tea-table, one of them a mother with a child. Lithograph by J. Fischer, 1803.
  • A woman holding her child while a servant holds a bowl of food to feed her. Engraving by A. Nargeot after himself after J. Verkolje the elder, 1675.
  • A vision of motherhood with a small child. Heliotype by Arents after L. Marqueste.
  • 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 woman holding three children one of whom is breast-feeding from her; representing charity. Line engraving by T. Verkruis after C. Sacconi after G. Reni.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner recounting his exploits to a small boy, showing him a print called "The blowing up of the Orient": his mother and a print pedlar (?) look on. Engraving by T. Holles, 1845, after E. M. Ward.
  • A woman sitting next to her husband and breast feeding her child. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • 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.
  • Alexandra, Princess of Wales with her baby son Albert Victor. Engraving by W. Holl the younger, 1864, after a photograph by V. Heath.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • A mother in bed after having given birth; the midwife showing the baby to the father. Coloured stipple engraving, ca. 1800.
  • François Mauriceau. Line engraving by J.A. Boener, 1680.
  • A woman breast feeding her child while she is holding it and its cradle. Collotype after a wooden sculpture.
  • A woman washing her baby. Woodcut after W. Strang, 1904.
  • A desperately unhappy woman cradling her sick child. Etching by T.A. Steinlen, 1902.
  • A woman lying down breast-feeding her baby. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A Jewish woman, seated, holding her infant child. Coloured lithograph by J. Nash, 1843, after D. Wilkie, ca. 1840.
  • A woman dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Coloured lithograph by A.C. Ledoux (?).
  • The new born son of Philip V of Spain being held by his mother Marie Louise of Savoy, born Madrid 25 August 1707. Engraving, 1707.
  • A woman sitting next to her husband and breast feeding her child. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • A poor woman in a dingy attic, surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III after J. Pierre.
  • A Flemish surgeon treating an elderly man's foot, an assistant is mixing a concoction with a pestle and mortar in a surgery. Engraving by J. Daullé after D. Teniers, the younger.
  • An anxious mother checking on her sleeping baby. Coloured lithograph by E. de Barescut after Lebot.
  • A woman is holding a child in her arms and her sister is standing on tiptoe trying to offer her an apple. Lithograph by Delpech after L. Boilly.
  • Five people sitting and standing around a tea-table, one of them a mother with a child. Lithograph by J. Fischer, 1803.
  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.