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  • Viswāmitra rejecting his daughter Sakuntalā's birth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.
  • A man and a woman of Norton Sound, Alaska, in front of their hut; encountered by Captain Cook on his third voyage (1777-1780). Engraving by B.T. Pouncy, 1784, after J. Webber.
  • The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, with many people in the road. Coloured engraving after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
  • Hebrew midwives refusing to kill male babies after being ordered to do so by the Pharoah of Egypt. Engraving by P.P. Bouché after G. Freeman, ca. 1694.
  • A woman begging with three children, one of them a naked infant, under the arch of a town-wall. Lithograph.
  • A clergyman conducting a chaotic christening. Colour mezzotint by J. Sympson, 173-, after W. Hogarth.
  • Hospice Maternité allaitement, Paris: facade with a keyed floor and street plan. Engraving by J.E. Thierry after H. Bessat, 1811.
  • Extraordinary birth! : On Sunday last, at Ferguson's Grand Promenade and exhibition rooms, 167, High Holborn, the lady of the celebrated dwarf Senor Santiago de Loss Santos, was delivered of a fine boy, the father being no more than 25 inches high, although 49 years of age, while his mother is but 28 inches high, and 31 years of age : an apartment has been fitted up expressly for the shewing of this great novelty ...
  • A maniacal man is visited in prison by his children, all ruined through his drinking habit. Reproduction of an etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • An old wet nurse; symbolising France as nanny-state and public health provider. Colour photomechanical reproduction of a lithograph by N. Dorville, 1901.
  • A drunken man sits at home with his family while bailiffs remove their furniture. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • Pregnancy and HIV / Khomanani, caring together.
  • A woman carrying a baby and holding the hand of her small child in a bleak rural setting. Engraving.
  • A woman personifying night carries two babies over the land, representing sleep and death. Etching by F. Bartolozzi, 1764, after Annibale Carracci.
  • A baby crawling within a heart shape with a portrait of a family above; an AIDS prevention advertisement from Thailand. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Babies at a maternity hospital refusing to breast feed until the Houses (of Parliament) are dissolved. Coloured lithograph by J.E. Chaponnière, 1831.
  • Christ among sick people and the Pharisees ('The hundred guilder print'). Etching by T. Worlidge, 1758, after Rembrandt, 1649.
  • Syrup Pix Liquida Compound.
  • Pregnancy and HIV / Khomanani, caring together.
  • A drunken man sits at home with his family who must sell clothes to pay for his habit. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • A drunken man sits at home with his family while bailiffs remove their furniture. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1847, after himself.
  • The Royal Infirmary with figures and coat of arms, Edinburgh, Scotland. Line engraving by P. Fourdrinier after P. Sandby.
  • A baby pointing to the words "Let us save the babies. For breast-feeding". Lithograph after H. Stephany, ca. 1917.
  • A blind man plays the fiddle to a family audience; a child to the right imitates the fiddler. Line engraving by T. Nicholson after D. Wilkie.
  • A bacchanalian gathering with leopards pulling a chariot and Silenus (?) on a donkey. Engraving by N.D. Beauvais after L. Cheron.
  • Rama and his mother with a parrot. Chromolithograph, 1867.
  • Two Japanese peasants on a village path, the man carries a scythe and the woman has a baby on her back. Gouache painting.
  • [Undated handbill (1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London ("Every one should see the giant baby")].
  • A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.
  • [Undated newspaper cutting (September 1886) advertising an appearance by a giant (3 feet tall), 1 year old baby at the Albert Palace, Battersea, London].