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Open my eyes, that I may see marvellous things / Alice Allan.
Allan, Alice (Lactation consultant)Date: 2017- Books
Boston's wayward children : social services for homeless children, 1830-1930 / Peter C. Holloran.
Holloran, Peter C., 1947-Date: 1994- Books
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An account of the Foundling Hospital, in London, for the maintenance and education of exposed and deserted young children / [Sir Thomas Bernard].
Bernard, Thomas, Sir, 1750-1818.Date: 1799- Pictures
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Cyrus is discovered by a shepherd and a shepherdess while he suckles a dog. Mezzotint by R. Earlom after G.B. Castiglione.
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664.Date: 1 September 1781Reference: 42712i- Pictures
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The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Date: 1 January 1821Reference: 18240i- Books
Charity and children in Renaissance Florence : the Ospedale degli Innocenti, 1410-1536 / Philip Gavitt.
Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020.Date: 1990- Books
Sacrificed for honor : Italian infant abandonment and the politics of reproductive control / David I. Kertzer.
Kertzer, David I., 1948-Date: [1993], ©1993- Pictures
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Foundling Hospital, London. Etching by H. Roberts, 1749, after J. Robinson after T. Jacobson.
Robinson, Jeremiah, active 1749.Date: 6 July 1749Reference: 23516i- Books
'Perche non avea chi la ghovernasse' : cultural values, family resources and abandonment in the Florence of Lorenzo de Medici, 1467-85 / Philip Gavitt.
Gavitt, Philip, 1950-2020Date: 1994- Books
Foundling Hospital : Thomas Coram School, Berkhamsted.
Date: [19??]- Pictures
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The infant Moses is brought before Pharaoh's daughter. Coloured lithograph by F. Hanfstaengl after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
Veronese, 1528-1588.Date: [between 1835 and 1852]Reference: 2398702i- Pictures
Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
Green, Henry Towneley, 1836-1899.Date: 7 December 1872Reference: 23524i- Books
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A candid historical account of the Hospital for the reception of exposed and deserted young children; representing the present plan of it as productive of many evils, and not adapted to the Genius and Happiness of this Nation. Shewing, on the other hand, the great importance of the establishment, if put under proper regulations, as the most effectual Means of preserving the Lives of a great Number of such Infants as have perished within the Bills of Mortality. With a proposal for carrying a new design into execution. To which is added, a letter from a country gentleman to a Governor of the Hospital: Containing Many Observations relating to Foundlings born, educated, or employed, in the Country; collected from real Facts: With his Opinion concerning the Amendments necessary.
Hanway, Jonas, 1712-1786.Date: Printed in the Year M.DCC.LIX. [1759]- Pictures
The infants Romulus and Remus are found by the shepherd Faustulus in the Tiber and are brought to his house for fostering. Line engraving by R. Strange after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [between 1750 and 1759?]Reference: 2855940i- Books
Poverty in eighteenth century Spain : the women and children of the Inclusa / Joan Sherwood.
Sherwood, Joan, 1929-Date: [1988], ©1988- Pictures
The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: February 5. 1752Reference: 2474139i- Pictures
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The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: Feb.ry. 5. 1752Reference: 20524i- Pictures
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Moses is retrieved from the Nile by Egyptian women. Engraving by S. Smith, 1786, after G. Robertson after F. Zuccarelli.
Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788.Date: 2 January 1786Reference: 20808i- Pictures
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The child Aaron being led away by Moses' father, after abandoning Moses in the bullrushes. Etching by C. Bouzonnet-Stella, 1672, after N. Poussin, 1654.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Date: 1672Reference: 20521i- Pictures
The infant Cyrus, being brought up by a dog, is discovered by a woman herding goats. Engraving by J. Boydell, 1765, after R. Earlom after G.B. Castiglione.
Castiglione, Giovanni Benedetto, 1609-1664.Date: May 1st 1765Reference: 2803404i- Pictures
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A teddy bear that had belonged to a boy born HIV positive lies abandoned in the corner of a room; advertising a competition for posters against AIDS. Colour lithograph by Franck Bellier for CRIPS.
Date: [between 1990 and 1999]Reference: 672710i- Pictures
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Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Essex: perspective view. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffat.
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878.Reference: 23971i- Books
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The new cheats of London exposed; or, The frauds and tricks of the town laid open to both sexes. Being a warning-piece against the iniquitous practices of that metropolis. Containing a new and clear discovery of all the various cheats, frauds, villanies, artifices, tricks, seductions, stratagems, impositions, deceptions, which are daily practised in London,-by bawds, beggars, bullies, children strippers, duffers, fortune tellers, footpads, gossips, gamblers, hangers-on, highwaymen, house-breakers, jilts, intelligencers, Jew defaulters, informers, kidnappers, mock auctioneers, money droppers, pimps, pretended friends, pettyfoggers, procurers, procuresses, pickpockets, quacks, ring droppers, receivers of stolen goods, spungers, sharpers, swindlers, smugglers, shop-lifters, street robbers, trappers, way-layers, waggon-hunters, whores, &c. &c. &c. Interspersed with useful reflections and admontions, salutary hints and observations, whereby rogues and cheats are not only exposed, but may be avoided; the whole laid down in a plain, and easy manner, to enable innocent country people to be completely on their guard, and avoid the base villanies of those vile and abandoned wretches, who live by robbery and deceiving the young and credulous of both sexes. Written from experience and observation, by Richard King, Esq. Embellished with an emblematical frontispiece. Peruse these, sheets, and you will find true pictures of the vicious kind; of cheats who stroll from street to street, and make a prey of all they meet.
King, RichardDate: [between ca. 1778 and 1805?]- Pictures
The infant Moses is brought before Pharaoh's daughter. Engraving by Edmé Jeaurat after P. Caliari, il Veronese.
Veronese, 1528-1588Date: [1742]Reference: 3046829iPart of: Recueil d'estampes d'après les plus beaux tableaux et d'après les plus beaux desseins qui sont en France.- Pictures
Alcoholism as a cause of insanity in lunatic asylums, and as cause of broken and poor homes in society. Lithograph attributed to Paul-Emile Colin, ca. 1900.
Colin, Paul-Emile, 1867-1949.Date: [1900?]Reference: 543166iPart of: Mobilier et matériel pour l'enseignement