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Delivery (Obstetrics) - Early works to 1800

Explore all aspects of childbirth, from medical and obstetric texts and illustrations to historical depictions of women in labour with their attendants.

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Obstetrics
Parturition

Images from the collections

Images about Delivery (Obstetrics) - Early works to 1800

279 images from works
  • Obstetrics: Breech presentation
  • A woman's pelvis after a pubiotomy - to widen the birth canal for a vaginal delivery of a baby - previous two babies died. Collotype by Römmler & Jonas after a radiograph made for G. Leopold and Th. Leisewitz, 1908.
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • A jolly surgeon picks up a newly-delivered baby and asks for its ticket of arrival. Colour process print after by D.E. Galanis, c. 1910.
  • Text to accompany illustration of a birthing chair
  • A new-born child being given its first bath. Engraving, 1800.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with explanation about the contamination risks of HIV infected women to their children through pregnancy and childbirth. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • A woman representing Nature gives a baby to a mother; representing man's vulnerable and naked birth. Engraving by P. Galle, 1563.
  • Myrrha, being transformed into the myrrh tree, gives birth to Adonis. Engraving by M. Faulte, 1619.
  • A bemused husband querying a doctor as to how his wife of only six months can have already given birth to a child. Wood engraving, 1838.

Works from the collections

Parturition
Labor (Obstetrics)
Obstetrics
Hospitals, Maternity
Pregnant women
Nurse Midwives
Pregnancy, Animal
Mothers
Pregnancy
Prenatal care