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Foundling Hospital, London. Etching by H. Roberts, 1749, after J. Robinson after T. Jacobson. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
High society men and women stroll up the path to the entrance. Beyond the gates two children play with a hoop. Underneath the image on the left is the picture of a maid. In the middle a coat of arms showing a woman with eight breasts standing in a basket (Charity) and a woman with a standard and a shield bearing the union jack. In the centre of the emblem is an infant with an outstretched hand underneath a sickle moon flanked by two stars; on the top is a lamb holding a sprig in its mouth. The banner underneath the emblem says 'Help'. On the far right side of the sheet is the image of a boy with his hat in his hand
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