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Images about Rural children

16 images from works
  • A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.
  • A small girl is feeding leaves to deer in a garden outside a cottage. Coloured lithograph.
  • A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.
  • A father feeding his infant whilst the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Pen drawing after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A father feeding his infant while the mother attends to domestic jobs and a small child plays with its food. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1648.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A health inspector dismayed to discover that a mother thinks her child has been vaccinated because he has been butted by a cow. Wood engraving by C. Keane, 1877.
  • Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
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Works from the collections

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    Malnourished children of the rural poor : the web of food, health, education, fertility, and agricultural production / Judith B. Balderston, Alan B. Wilson, Maria E. Freire, Mari S. Simonen of the Berkeley Project on Educatioon and Nutrition ; with forewords by Charles S. Benson, Sheldon Margen.

    | Date: [1981]
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    A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.

    | Reference: 17427i
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    A woman breastfeeding her child among her family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1784, after A. van Ostade, 1641.

    Ostade, Adriaen van, 1610-1685. | Date: 1641-1784 | Reference: 17411i
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    Two girls commenting on the fact that the new doctor's children are ugly as they pass them in the woods - misinterpreting the theory of natural selection. Wood engraving after G. Du Maurier, 1892.

    Du Maurier, George, 1834-1896. | Date: 1892 | Reference: 14295i
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    A communal house, the men sit drinking around a table while the women look after the children, weave hay and the older children cook. Engraving by C. Bouzonnet Stella after J. Stella.

    Stella, Jacques, 1596-1657. | Reference: 17586i
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Related topics

Country life
Child care
House furnishings
Domestic relations
Dogs
Breast Feeding
Infants
Motherhood

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