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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.

The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.

Elijah restores the widow's son to his mother, who greets him with open arms. Drawing by R.T. Bone, ca. 1811.

A couple in animal skins (Adam and Eve?) journeying with three children after the expulsion. Coloured stipple engraving.

A couple looking lovingly and playing with their baby in a happy domestic environment. Etching by T. Rowlandson, 1787.

Woman suckling an infant. Chromolithograph.

Doctors and pharmacists surround a mother with child, proffering medicines; symbolising the difference of ideas concerning change of the Dutch electoral law. Reproduction of a lithograph by J. Braakensiek, 1893.

Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

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

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.

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Mom has cancer and she is dying.

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Mothers

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Images referencing Mothers

Works from the collections

Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

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

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.

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

Mom has cancer and she is dying.

Mothers

Images from the collections

Images referencing Mothers

Works from the collections

Ocytocin : birthing the world / Procreate Project.

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

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.

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

Mom has cancer and she is dying.

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