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Pregnancy, Animal

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Images from the collections

Images about Pregnancy, Animal

185 images from works
  • Foetuses in utero: four figures showing cross-sections of a foetus in various positions in the uterus. Line engraving, 1791, by W. Taylor after F. Birnie, after W. Smellie.
  • Formation of the human foetus: five figures, showing the development from five months to nine months gestation. Colour engraving, by J. Pass after D. Dodd, 1794.
  • The Visitation of the Virgin Mary to Elizabeth (?) Engraving by S. Mulinari, 1778.
  • Dissection of a pregnant uterus, showing the foetus at nine months, with the head positioned towards the vagina and the lower part of the placenta under the child's head, detached from the uterus. Copperplate engraving by J. Mitchel after I.V. Rymsdyk, 1774, reprinted 1851.
  • A woman lies back on a sofa holding a telephone as a man leans over with thoughts of condoms and lubricant looming in a speech bubble overhead; another woman sits on her knees in the centre exclaiming 'AIDS?' while a couple sit on the end, dreaming of pregnancy; an advertisement for safe sex and AIDS prevention by the Center for Youth Sexual Health and Contraception. Colour lithograph by Eulàlia Sayrach, 1993.
  • A pregnant woman receiving treatment for malaria: preventing malaria in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health Division of Malaria Control, ca. 2000.
  • An information sheet about an anti-AIDS poster exhibition designed and produced by Artis as part of a collaboration with the Unesco/WHO AIDS prevention education programme; with explanation about the contamination risks of HIV infected women to their children through pregnancy and childbirth. Colour lithograph, ca. 1990's.
  • Numbered images and text including 2 images of a couple making love, a woman lying attached to a drip receiving a blood transfusion, a syringe injecting into an arm and a group of pregnant women; an advertisement from Laos about safe sex and AIDS prevention and the dangers of intravenous drug abuse and pregnancy. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • The Visitation of Mary to Elizabeth. Watercolour painting.
  • Dissection of the female abdomen, showing part of the pregnant uterus at seven months, with the surrounding viscera. Copperplate engraving by F. Aliamet after A. Cozens, 1774, reprinted 1851.

Works from the collections

355 works

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    40 weeks : what humans and 81 other species expect when they're expecting / Anna Blix ; translated from the Norwegian by Nichola Smalley.

    Blix, Anna. | Date: 2025
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    A man caring for his pregnant wife: ante-natal care during pregnancy in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph after T. W. Agerneti (?) by the Health Education Centre, 1997.

    | Date: 1997 | Reference: 754253i
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    Traitde la folie des femmes enceintes : des nouvelles accouchs et des nourrices et considations mico-lales qui se rattachent a ce sujet / par L. V. Marc.

    Marc Louis Victor, 1828-1864. | Date: 1858
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    Dissection showing the pregnant uterus. Coloured line engraving by W.H. Lizars, ca. 1827.

    William Home Lizars | Date: [1827?] | Reference: 579940i
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    Test-tube women : what future for motherhood? / edited by Rita Arditti, Renate Duelli Klein, and Shelley Minden.

    | Date: 1984
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Related topics

Childbirth
Pregnancy
Uterus, Pregnant
Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome
Human anatomy
Uterus
Obstetrics
Parturition
HIV infections - Prevention
Safe Sex

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