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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.

1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 38.2 x 28.8 cm

A woman breast feeding one child and holding two others; representing charity. Engraving by R. Morghen, 1795, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.

A woman washing her baby. Woodcut after W. Strang, 1904.

A woman taking her baby from its cradle. Engraving.

The Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. Engraving by J. Sauvè after G. Reni.

A woman offering her breast to her small child who has just been rescued. Lithograph by J.C. Wilson.

L'amour en plus : histoire de l'amour maternel (XVIIe-XXe siècle) / Elisabeth Badinter.

The Virgin Mary with Christ as a small child, another woman stands above them arms raised, perhaps Saint Anne. Line engraving.

<p>The queen Marie de' Medici is seated on a grand throne, the baby is in the arms of Health while Justice looks over him. Fecundity brings a cornucopia of fruit with the heads of the other children the queen will bear. The sun rides his chariot across the sky to indicate that Louis XIII was born n the morning and the calm figure of France surveys the whole scene</p>

La gallerie du Palais du Luxembourg

1 print : line engraving with etching ; platemark 50.3 x 34.9 cm

The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the younger after J. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.

22 unnumbered pages : black and white illustrations ; 22 cm

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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 woman breast feeding one child and holding two others; representing charity. Engraving by R. Morghen, 1795, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.

A woman washing her baby. Woodcut after W. Strang, 1904.

A woman taking her baby from its cradle. Engraving.

The Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. Engraving by J. Sauvè after G. Reni.

A woman offering her breast to her small child who has just been rescued. Lithograph by J.C. Wilson.

L'amour en plus : histoire de l'amour maternel (XVIIe-XXe siècle) / Elisabeth Badinter.

The Virgin Mary with Christ as a small child, another woman stands above them arms raised, perhaps Saint Anne. Line engraving.

The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the younger after J. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.

La mama vida : re-membering motherhood / [Zines Rasquache].

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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 woman breast feeding one child and holding two others; representing charity. Engraving by R. Morghen, 1795, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.

A woman washing her baby. Woodcut after W. Strang, 1904.

A woman taking her baby from its cradle. Engraving.

The Virgin Mary with the baby Jesus. Engraving by J. Sauvè after G. Reni.

A woman offering her breast to her small child who has just been rescued. Lithograph by J.C. Wilson.

L'amour en plus : histoire de l'amour maternel (XVIIe-XXe siècle) / Elisabeth Badinter.

The Virgin Mary with Christ as a small child, another woman stands above them arms raised, perhaps Saint Anne. Line engraving.

The birth of King Louis XIII. Engraving by B. Audran the younger after J. Nattier after P.P. Rubens.

La mama vida : re-membering motherhood / [Zines Rasquache].

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