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Concept

Mothers

Images

  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a perspective view looking north-east at the main building, with penitent mothers arriving beside a statue of fortune. Engraving by C. Grignion and P. C. Canot after S. Wale, 1749.
  • HIV & AIDS : information about mothers and children with HIV infection / written by Rosie Claxton for the Terrence Higgins Trust.
  • A man administers a clyster to a greedy little boy who is laying across his mothers lap, his two siblings watch the scene with amusement. Engraving by J. Ouvrier after J.E. Schenau.
  • The funeral of Mrs Susannah Wesley at Bunhill Fields, the Methodist cemetery: a key to the identities of the mourners. Etching.
  • Solomon judges the case of the two harlots and their babies. Line engraving by J. Eisenhardt, 1847, after E. von Steinle.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

    Procreate Project | Date: 2017
    • Books

    Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

    | Date: 2009
    • Books

    Environmental activism and the maternal : mothers and Mother Earth in activism and discourse / edited by Rebecca Jaremko Bromwich, Noemie Richard, Olivia Ungar, Melanie Younger and Maryellen Symons.

    | Date: [2020]
    • Ephemera

    London Lesbian Line : funded by London Boroughs Grants Committee... : 071 251 6911, minicom 071 253 0924.

    | Date: [1992]
    • Books

    Mom has cancer and she is dying.

    | Date: [2018?]
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