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  • A seated woman giving birth aided by a midwife and two other attendants, in the background two men are looking at the stars and plotting a horoscope. Woodcut, 1583[?].
  • Egyptian carving, dwarf demon Bes, taken 1989
  • The birth of Benjamin and the death of Rachel. Oil painting after Francesco Furini.
  • Childbirth: sinister obstetricians and anaesthetist extract the baby from the mother. Drawing by R. Ennis, 2005.
  • A midwife giving the Virgin Mary her first bath, Anna is visited by well-wishers congratulating her on the birth. Coloured line engraving after J. Miel.
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • The birth of a baby. Oil painting after (?) Lambert Sustris.
  • Sibah.
  • The byrth of mankynde, otherwyse named the womans booke : Newly set furth, corrected and augmented. Whose co[n]tentes ye maye rede in the table of the booke, and most playnly in the prologue / By Thomas Raynold phisition.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, Anna rests in bed while Mary is looked at in wonderment. Engraving by B. Eredi after G. Perraccini after A. Carracci.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • Virgil and A. Pollio deep in conversation above a bustling town and harbour, Saloninius (Pollio's infant son) lies in a cradle at their feet. Woodcut after Virgil.
  • The birth of the Virgin: Saint Anne in bed receiving attention while others attend to the infant Virgin Mary, overlooked by an angel swinging a censer. Engraving by M.A. Raimondi after A. Dürer.
  • Cross-sections of seven different figures of the pregnant uterus. Engraving by A. Bell.
  • Tamar giving birth to Pharez and Zarah aided by a midwife and many assistants. Engraving by H. Muller after M. van Heemskerck.
  • The birth of the Virgin (?) amidst much celebration. Colour engraving by S. Mulinari after G. Pordenone.
  • The birth of Pyrrhus, his mother Deidamia (?) recovers in bed while servants wash and tend him. Engraving by F. Bartolozzi, 1797, after A. Carracci.
  • The birth of Julius Caesar from his dead mother. Reproduction, 1933, of a woodcut, 1506.
  • Cabbalistic amulet for safe pregnancy, 18th c.
  • The birth of Henri IV at the castle of Pau. Oil painting after Eugène-François-Marie-Joseph Devéria.
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • Eleven decorated initials from the Basel 1555 edition of Andreas Vesalius's De humani corporis fabrica. Woodcuts, 1555.
  • The uncleanliness of the mother after giving birth, according to Jewish law. Etching by P.G. Harder, ca. 1731/1733.
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Preceptos generales sobre las operaciones de los partos : este tratado es una exposicion completa del arte obstetrice, en el qual se explican con la mayor especies de partos : esta adicionado con advertencias y notas de lo mejor que han escrito los profesores modernos : ilustrado con observaciones prácticas muy instructivas, y adornado con láminas finas : escrito particularmente para la instruccion de los cirujanos partidarios / Don Joseph Ventura Pastor.
  • The birth of the Virgin. Oil painting by Leandro Bassano.
  • Foetuses in utero: six figures showing cross-sections of foetuses in various positions in the uterus prior to and during birth. Line engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after Smellie.