Woman employed to breastfeed and care for another's child

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A drunken wet-nurse about to give the Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) a drop of alcohol as a horrified Queen Victoria and Prince Albert burst in on the scene. Lithograph.

M0011220: A man showing his wife a newborn baby: illustration inspired by the work <i>Guillaume le franc-parleur</i> by Étienne Jouy

Woman suckling an infant. Chromolithograph.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.

The bureau of wet nurses in Paris - wet nurses waiting to be selected. Aquatint after C. Brocas, 1822.

A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.

A wet-nurse attempts to breast feed John the Baptist who is held by the Virgin(?); Elizabeth is recovering in bed, Zacharias looks on proudly. Engraving.

A wet-nurse dressed in Neapolitan costume holding a baby. Watercolour by M. de Sate.

Nursery and Child's Hospital, New York. Coloured wood engraving.

An infant who has been living with a wet-nurse being taken away from its foster-parents by its natural mother. Etching by R. De Launay (Delaunay), 1780, after E. Aubry.

Got milk? : a transition between wet-nursing and breastfeeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Amanda Rea.

Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

The histories of wet-nursing and surrogate motherhood compared - did history repeat itself ? / a dissertation by Vinnie Sodhi.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.

Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.

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Wet nurses

Images from the collections

Images about Wet nurses

Works from the collections

Got milk? : a transition between wet-nursing and breastfeeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Amanda Rea.

Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

The histories of wet-nursing and surrogate motherhood compared - did history repeat itself ? / a dissertation by Vinnie Sodhi.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.

Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.

Wet nurses

Images from the collections

Images about Wet nurses

Works from the collections

Got milk? : a transition between wet-nursing and breastfeeding in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Amanda Rea.

Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

The histories of wet-nursing and surrogate motherhood compared - did history repeat itself ? / a dissertation by Vinnie Sodhi.

The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.

Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.

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