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Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.
Fournier, Alfred, 1832-1914.Date: 1878
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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
Ephemera
Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.
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A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
Reference: 17440i
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A wet-nurse dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Watercolour by M. de Sate.
Sate, M. de.Reference: 17699i
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A wet-nurse attempts to breast feed John the Baptist who is held by the Virgin(?); Elizabeth is recovering in bed, Zacharias looks on proudly. Engraving.
Reference: 17364i
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The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.
Brocas, Charles, 1774-1835.Date: 1822Reference: 17481i
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An infant who has been living with a wet-nurse being taken away from its foster-parents by its natural mother. Etching by R. De Launay (Delaunay), 1780, after E. Aubry.
Aubry, Etienne, 1745-1781Date: [1780]Reference: 46825i
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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
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A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.
Ritscher, Moritz (Gottlob Moritz), 1827-1875.Date: [1878]Reference: 27720i
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M0011220: A man showing his wife a newborn baby: illustration inspired by the work Guillaume le franc-parleur by Étienne Jouy
Date: January 1950Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/99/66
Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
Dorville, Noël, 1874-1938.Date: 1901Reference: 17008i
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The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.
Ditta Vasari Fotografo Editore.Date: [between 1900 and 1999?]Reference: 665025i
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A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.
Reference: 17727i
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Woman suckling an infant. Chromolithograph.
Reference: 26465i
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Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.
Reference: 18540i
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Babies at a maternity hospital refusing to breast feed until the Houses (of Parliament) are dissolved. Coloured lithograph by J.E. Chaponnière, 1831.
Chaponnière, John-Étienne, 1801-1835.Date: 1831Reference: 17491i
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A newborn baby wrapped in long frilled gown with an enormous plumed headpiece is carried by a matron and presented to an irritated looking John Bull. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.
Date: 1840-1850Reference: 643127i

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Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.

Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.

A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.

A wet-nurse dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Watercolour by M. de Sate.

A wet-nurse attempts to breast feed John the Baptist who is held by the Virgin(?); Elizabeth is recovering in bed, Zacharias looks on proudly. Engraving.

The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.

An infant who has been living with a wet-nurse being taken away from its foster-parents by its natural mother. Etching by R. De Launay (Delaunay), 1780, after E. Aubry.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.

A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.

M0011220: A man showing his wife a newborn baby: illustration inspired by the work Guillaume le franc-parleur by Étienne Jouy

An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.

The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.

A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.

Woman suckling an infant. Chromolithograph.

Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.

Babies at a maternity hospital refusing to breast feed until the Houses (of Parliament) are dissolved. Coloured lithograph by J.E. Chaponnière, 1831.

A newborn baby wrapped in long frilled gown with an enormous plumed headpiece is carried by a matron and presented to an irritated looking John Bull. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.

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Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.

Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.

A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.

A wet-nurse dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Watercolour by M. de Sate.

A wet-nurse attempts to breast feed John the Baptist who is held by the Virgin(?); Elizabeth is recovering in bed, Zacharias looks on proudly. Engraving.

The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.

An infant who has been living with a wet-nurse being taken away from its foster-parents by its natural mother. Etching by R. De Launay (Delaunay), 1780, after E. Aubry.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.

A girl is brought by an old woman to visit her former foster-mother and wet nurse in a cottage. Engraved by E. Mohn after M. Ritscher.

M0011220: A man showing his wife a newborn baby: illustration inspired by the work Guillaume le franc-parleur by Étienne Jouy

An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.

The foundling hospital of the Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia, Rome: wet-nurses looking after the babies, and Pope Sixtus IV ordering the rebuilding. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a fresco painting.

A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.

Woman suckling an infant. Chromolithograph.

Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.

Babies at a maternity hospital refusing to breast feed until the Houses (of Parliament) are dissolved. Coloured lithograph by J.E. Chaponnière, 1831.

A newborn baby wrapped in long frilled gown with an enormous plumed headpiece is carried by a matron and presented to an irritated looking John Bull. Lithograph, ca. 1840/1850.