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Abandoned children

Images

  • Moses is retrieved from the Nile by Egyptian women. Engraving by S. Smith, 1786, after G. Robertson after F. Zuccarelli.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • Foundling Hospital, London. Etching by H. Roberts, 1749, after J. Robinson after T. Jacobson.
  • Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: interior of chapel. Etching by John Sanders, 1774, after himself.
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Catalogue

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    Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés ... / par J.-F. Terme ... et J.-B. Monfalcon.

    Terme, J. F. (Jean François), 1790-1850. | Date: 1837
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    Hey, kiddo / by Jarrett J. Krosoczka.

    Krosoczka, Jarrett | Date: [2018]
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    The lost children : a study of charity children in Ireland, 1700-1900 / Joseph Robins.

    Robins, Joseph. | Date: 1980
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    Orphans and foundlings in early modern Europe / Brian Pullan.

    Pullan, Brian S. | Date: 1994
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    The kindness of strangers : the abandonment of children in Western Europe from late antiquity to the Renaissance / John Boswell.

    Boswell, John, 1947-1994. | Date: 1989, ©1988
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