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Mothers and daughters

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Images from the collections

Images about Mothers and daughters

31 images from works
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • Saint Anne with the young Mary. Coloured stipple engraving.
  • 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 young physician feeling the pulse of a young woman, a painting of two lovers in the background suggests her illness maybe lovesickness. Lithograph by L.E. Soulange-Teissier, 1850, after P.L.A.A. Terral.
  • Saint Anne with her child, the Virgin Mary. Engraving by Salvardi.
  • A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.
  • A small girl recovering from an illness and being visited by neighbours. Colour process print, 1907, after E. Magnus.
  • 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 father puts his arm around his son who reads a book while a mother holding a cup comforts her daughter; an AIDS prevention advertisement aimed at families for the NGO AIDS Cell Centre for Community Medicine in New Delhi. Colour lithograph by N.R. Nanda, ca. March 1994.
  • Saint Anne with the young Mary. Gouache painting.

Works from the collections

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    Saint Anne educates the young Virgin Mary; Joachim stands behind them. Engraving.

    | Reference: 21155i
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    A man taking a woman's pulse. Oil painting by Egbert van Heemskerck.

    Heemskerck, Egbert van, 1634 or 1635-1704. | Reference: 44703i
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    Preparation for the witches' sabbath. Etching by D. Vivant-Denon after D. Teniers the younger.

    Teniers, David, 1610-1690. | Reference: 40366i
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    A father reprimanding his son, and a mother reprimanding her daughter. Coloured etching, 1801.

    | Date: May 26 1801 | Reference: 27365i
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    Saint Anne with her child, the Virgin Mary. Engraving.

    | Reference: 21149i

Related topics

Christianity
Family
Women in Christianity
Christian saints
Immaculate Conception
Mother-Child Relations
House furnishings
Physicians
Death
Grief

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