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Wet nurses

Images

  • 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.
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Catalogue

    • Student dissertations

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

    Rea, Amanda. | Date: 2009
    • Books
    • Online

    Nourrices et nourrissons syphilitiques / leçons professées par Alfred Fournier.

    Fournier, Alfred, 1832-1914. | Date: 1878
    • Student dissertations

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

    Sodhi, Vinnie. | Date: 1990
    • Pictures

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

    Hogarth, William, 1697-1764. | Date: February 5. 1752 | Reference: 2474139i
    • Ephemera

    Childcare ephemera. Box 9, Food and breastfeeding.

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