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  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • Moses is retrieved from the Nile by Egyptian women. Engraving by S. Smith, 1786, after G. Robertson after F. Zuccarelli.
  • 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.
  • Fashionable London comes to observe Sunday lunch at the Foundling Hospital. Wood engraving by J. Swain, 1872, after H.T. Green.
  • The Foundling Hospital: the main buildings seen from the north, with a farmyard in the foreground. Engraving by J. P. Malcolm after himself, 1808.
  • The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
  • Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by J. W. Cook after B. Nebot, 1741.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: the main buildings with several figures. Engraving, [1751].
  • Foundling Hospital, London. Etching by H. Roberts, 1749, after J. Robinson after T. Jacobson.
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