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Images about Parturition

13 images from works
  • [Leaflet (8 June 1880) about the conjoined twin girls, Rosalie and Josepha Blazek.  ].
  • Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Foetuses in utero: six figures showing cross-sections of foetuses in various positions in the uterus prior to and during birth. Line engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after Smellie.
  • The birth of Adonis. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.
  • Viswāmitra rejecting his daughter Sakuntalā's birth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 9e. tableau, Des secondines ou arriere-faix / École départementale de l'Ain.
  • Viswāmitra rejecting his daughter Sakuntalā's birth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
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Works from the collections

491 works

    • Books

    Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

    | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

    | Chabon, Irwin | Date: [1966]
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0017673: Illustration of apparatus for studying uterine contractions during childbirth

    | Date: November 1959 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/158/37
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
    • Books

    Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

    | Grantly Dick-Read | Date: 1958
    • Archives and manuscripts
    • Online

    M0001876: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

    | Date: 22 May 1931 | Reference: WT/D/1/20/1/17/67
    Part of: Wellcome Trust Corporate Archive
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Related topics

Childbirth
Obstetrics
Pregnancy
Mothers
Natural Childbirth
Prenatal care
Maternal Welfare
Midwifery
Labor, Obstetric
Pregnancy, Animal

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