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Unmarried mothers

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  • A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
  • Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
  • Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
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    A courtroom hearing a paternity suite: a lawyer pleads for his client before the bench. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1752/1761, after C. Troost.

    Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750. | Date: 1752-1761 | Reference: 31648i
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    Unfortunate objects : lone mothers in eighteenth-century London / Tanya Evans.

    Evans, Tanya, 1972- | Date: 2005
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    Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.

    Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832. | Date: 1 March 1808 | Reference: 21557i
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    A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.

    T., I., active 1826. | Date: 1826 | Reference: 21828i
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    A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.

    | Date: 12th May 1794 | Reference: 27640i
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