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Infants - Sleep

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  • A woman sewing in a pleasant domestic interior, her baby sleeps sweetly in its cradle. Aquatint by J. Sartain after G. Dou.
  • A woman holding her sleeping baby after breast feeding it. Mezzotint.
  • Napoléon I and Marie Louise with their new born son. Engraving by A. Godefroy after Adolphe Roehn.
  • Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.
  • A woman holding her sleeping baby after breast feeding it. Mezzotint.
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    Two people watching over the cradle of a sleeping baby at night. Aquatint after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1644.

    Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669. | Reference: 17579i
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    A woman sewing in a pleasant domestic interior, her baby sleeps sweetly in its cradle. Aquatint by J. Sartain after G. Dou.

    Dou, Gerard, 1613-1675. | Reference: 17587i
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    A woman holding her sleeping baby after breast feeding it. Mezzotint.

    | Date: 4 December 1790 | Reference: 17453i
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    Teach your baby to sleep through the night / Charles E. Schaefer, Michael R. Petronko.

    Schaefer, Charles E. | Date: 1993
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    A cobbler purposely disturbing his beautiful wife and a rich merchant from beginning to repay his debt with sexual favours. Etching by P. Fillœul, 1736, after J.-B. Pater.

    Pater, Jean-Baptiste Joseph, 1695-1736 | Date: 1736 | Reference: 17610i
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