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  • Nine diagrams illustrating breech and natural births and the obstetrical instruments used to assist them. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Five diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Eight diagrams illustrating difficult births and obstetrical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Eight diagrams illustrating difficult births and obstetrical instruments. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Ten diagrams illustrating various methods of delivering a baby using forceps. Etching, 1791.
  • Seven diagrams illustrating difficult births, obstetrical instruments and a conjoined twin. Etching by Barlow.
  • Eight diagrams illustrating babies in the womb in different positions about to enter the world. Etching by Barlow.
  • Seven diagrams illustrating the birth of a child with the use of forceps. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • A seated woman giving birth aided by a midwife and two other attendants, in the background two men are looking at the stars and plotting a horoscope. Woodcut, 1583[?].
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • A diagram demonstrating different kinds of forceps, and their use in childbirth. Lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • Six diagrams of babies being delivered with the aid of forceps and three illustrations of obstetrical instruments. Engraving.
  • A foppish obstetrician with forceps in his pocket. Etching, 1772.