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Birth customs

Images

  • A kraamkamer (birth-room). Watercolour, 16--.
  • A new-born baby being baptised by a midwife in the mother's bedroom. Etching by B. Picart.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anne washes her hands before being given food and drink by attendants. Photolithograph after a painting by B. Daddi.
  • (Left) a celebration of the birth of a child, (right) the child's first bath. Etching by B. Picart after himself, 1726.
  • The birth of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anne washes her hands before being given food and drink by attendants. Photolithograph after a painting by B. Daddi.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

    Däubler-Hauschke, Claudia. | Date: 2003
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    Within and without : the social and medical worlds of the medieval midwife, 1000-1500 / by Ginger Lee Guardiola.

    Guardiola, Ginger Lee. | Date: 2002
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    Labor among primitive peoples : Showing the development of the obstetric science of to-day, from the natural and instinctive customs of all races, civilized and savage, past and present / By Geo. J. Engelmann.

    Engelmann, George J. (George Julius), 1847-1903. | Date: 1883
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    Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

    Fissell, Mary Elizabeth. | Date: 2004
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    Childbirth wisdom : from the world's oldest societies / Judith Goldsmith.

    Goldsmith, Judith | Date: 1990
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