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A courtroom hearing a paternity suite: a lawyer pleads for his client before the bench. Engraving by P. Tanjé, 1752/1761, after C. Troost.
Troost, Cornelis, 1697-1750.Date: 1752-1761Reference: 31648i- Books
Unfortunate objects : lone mothers in eighteenth-century London / Tanya Evans.
Evans, Tanya, 1972-Date: 2005
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Bridewell Hospital, London: the interior of the pass-room with women and children, some lying on palliasses. Coloured aquatint by J. Hill after A. C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson.
Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832.Date: 1 March 1808Reference: 21557i
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A physician examining a urine specimen in which a faint figure of a baby is visible, a female patient is crying and being shouted at by her angry mother, indicating that she is pregnant. Watercolour by I.T., 1826.
T., I., active 1826.Date: 1826Reference: 21828i
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A baby has been left outside the town-house of an old bachelor, and a young woman watches from the corner of the street. Engraving, 1794.
Date: 12th May 1794Reference: 27640i