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Infanticide

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Images from the collections

Images about Infanticide

16 images from works
  • Woking Convict Invalid Prison: five women prisoners convicted of infanticide. Process print after Paul Renouard, 1889.
  • The holy family prepare to flee for Egypt. Engraving by F. Poilly after G. Reni.
  • Pope Sixtus IV being shown the cadavers of dead illegitimate children picked out of the Tiber, and deciding to reform the law which allowed their infanticide. Photograph by Ditta Vasari, 19-- (?) after a freso painting.
  • The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.
  • A witches' sabbath. Line engraving, 17--.
  • The massacre of the innocents. Etching by F.P. Massau after J.F. Overbeck, 1843.
  • Mary and Joseph walk to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by N. Pitau, 1666, after S. François.
  • Mary and Joseph with Jesus through a wide landscape to Egypt. Etching by J. Callot.
  • Mary and Joseph ride to Egypt with the infant Jesus. Engraving by H. Wierix..
  • A naked witch flies to the sabbath mounted on a goat, while her companions continue to prepare their drugs. Process print after H. Baldung Grien.
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Works from the collections

137 works

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    Weep not for me : women, ballads, and infanticide in early modern Scotland / Deborah A. Symonds.

    Symonds, Deborah A., 1951- | Date: [1997], ©1997
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    ude mico-lale sur l'infanticide / par Ambroise Tardieu ... ; avec trois planches coloris.

    Tardieu, Ambroise, 1818-1879. | Date: 1868
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    Should the baby live? : the problem of handicapped infants / Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer.

    Kuhse, Helga. | Date: 1985
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    Das Verbrechen des Kindesmordes im Zeitalter der Aufklärung : eine rechtsgeschichtliche Untersuchung der dogmatischen, prozessualen und rechtssoziologischen Aspekte / [Wilhelm Wächtershäuser].

    Wächtershäuser, Wilhelm. | Date: [1973], ©1973
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    Étude médico-légale sur l'infanticide / par Ambroise Tardieu.

    Tardieu, Ambroise, 1818-1879. | Date: 1868
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Related topics

Infants in the Bible
Christianity
History, 19th Century
Forensic Medicine
Egypt - In the Bible
United Kingdom
Joseph
Mary
Donkeys
Escapes

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