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  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • HIV & AIDS : information about mothers and children with HIV infection / written by Rosie Claxton for the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • Solomon judges the case of the two harlots and their babies. Line engraving by J. Eisenhardt, 1847, after E. von Steinle.
  • The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.
  • A couple in animal skins (Adam and Eve?) journeying with three children after the expulsion. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • Woman suckling an infant. Chromolithograph.
  • A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.
  • Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.
  • Drinkers revelling outside a country tavern as a young man is led away by his mother and a drunkard is removed. Etching by J. Wachsmuth, mid 18th century, after D. Teniers.
  • [Postcard (Queen of the Earth 1) showing a young woman gazing at a baby in a crib while thinking of soldiers charging on horseback on the battlefield].
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • Elkanah and Hannah discuss the weaning of Samuel. Mezzotint by G. Graham, 1815.
  • A dispensary in the East End of London: crowds of local children are being vaccinated. Wood engraving by E. Buckman, 1871.
  • A paralysed old man being comforted and nursed by his children. Mezzotint after J.B. Greuze.
  • The birth of Henri of Navarre (Henry IV King of France). Line engraving by J.B. Pfitzer after L. Lafitte.
  • A woman in bed holding her new born baby. Phototype by Danesi after a bas-relief, 15--.
  • A group of children playing at being doctors and pharmacists, mother and grandmother approach through a door. Photogravure after F. Hardy.
  • The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.
  • A bewildered doctor checking the pulse of lovesick young woman, her concerned mother comforts her, in the background Cupid is grinning and pointing to one of his arrows. Coloured mezzotint by W. Ward, 1802, after J. Opie.
  • A hospital ward showing sick patients being tended to by medical staff, after a quote from the Bible (Matt. 25.36). Line engraving by C. Galle.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.
  • One of the women whose child has died and whom Solomon will judge. Stipple engraving after N. Poussin.
  • A lion and lioness with cubs. Engraving by G Duwe after J Graham.
  • The widow's son ecstatically returns to life in response to Elijah's prayer. Wood engraving.
  • A new-born baby dressed in yellow in the arms of its mother representing an AIDS prevention advertisement by the Programme National de lutte contre le SIDA, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Maroc with assistance from the FNUAP, Maroc. Colour lithograph, ca. 1993.