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Illegitimate children

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  • Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.
  • Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.
  • A monk carries a small child at night, while on his back he carries a bundle in which the face of a woman is visible: he is delivering them to a convent. Etching.
  • Unmarried mothers being brought before a court hearing and judged severely. Woodcut.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Sex among the rabble : an intimate history of gender & power in the age of revolution, Philadelphia, 1730-1830 / Clare A. Lyons.

    Lyons, Clare A. | Date: [2006], ©2006
    • Books
    • Online

    Children of scorn and medical papers / by Lady Cook (née Tennessee Claflin).

    Cook, Tennessee Claflin, Lady, 1845-1923. | Date: [1900]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.

    Ditta Vasari Fotografo Editore. | Date: [between 1900 and 1999?] | Reference: 665018i
    • Books

    Bastards and foundlings : infanticide, illegitimacy, and gender in eighteenth-century British literature / by Lisa Zunshine.

    Zunshine, Lisa, 1968- | Date: 2000
    • Books

    Illegitimacy in Britain, 1700-1920 / edited by Alysa Levene, Thomas Nutt and Samantha Williams.

    | Date: 2005
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