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Fathers and daughters

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Images about Fathers and daughters

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  • Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.
  • A father, having banished his daughter to her room, now seeks to console her. Wood engraving by J. Swain after R. Barnes.
  • A young woman implores her father to allow her to marry a politician who supported a different candidate in the Middlesex by-election from the one favoured by the father. Engraving by J. Miller, 1769.
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
  • Pero breastfeeding her father Cimon to assuage his hunger. Etching by Francesco Cozza.
  • Four scenes from W. Combe's verse Dr. Last or the devil upon two sticks, a parody of the Royal college of physicians and in particular John Fothergill. Engraving after W. Combe.
  • The martyrdom of Saint Barbara. Engraving by Wierix after Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), 15--.
  • An episode in The vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith: Dr Primrose finding his daughter Olivia, who has been jilted by Squire Thornhill. Coloured engraving by F. Bartolozzi after J.H. Ramberg.
  • Cimon in prison sucks at the breast of his daughter Pero. Woodcut and letterpress, ca. 1850 (?).
  • A girl returns to her family home in the village where her fine clothes and shoes are burnt by her father and she is given a peasant dress to wear. Lithograph by Thos. & Wm. Fairland, 1832, after P.E. Destouches.
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    Pero breast-feeding her imprisoned father Cimon. Line engraving by C. van Caukercken after P.P. Rubens.

    Peter Paul Rubens | Reference: 18149i
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    Billy's halo : love, science and my father's death / Ruth McKernan.

    McKernan, Ruth | Date: 2006
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    Pero breast-feeding her father Cimon in prison. Line engraving by J.P. le Bas after N.N. Coypel.

    Nöel-Nicolas Coypel | Date: [1735?] | Reference: 18150i
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    An angry father reproaching his daughter after intercepting a love-letter to her. Mezzotint by J. Ward, 1817, after J. Opie.

    John Opie | Date: 1817 | Reference: 674000i
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    A weeping Pero, breast-feeding Cimon, her starving imprisoned father. Line engraving by J. Danzel after N.N. Coypel.

    Nöel-Nicolas Coypel | Date: [1765] | Reference: 18152i
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Related topics

Breast Feeding
Prisoners
Human comfort
Roman charity (Legend)
Hunger

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