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A boy kneeling, holding a baby bird found while raking corn, with a woman and a girl, each holding a rake. Lithograph.
Reference: 38230i
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The Foundling Hospital: Captain Coram and several children, the latter carrying implements of work, a church and ships in the distance. Engraving by F. M. La Cave after W. Hogarth, 1739.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: 1739Reference: 38278i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770.Date: 1753Reference: 36982i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a south-east view and a bird's-eye view. Engraving by J. Green after S. Wale, 1761.
Wale, Samuel, -1786.Date: 1761Reference: 36585i
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Le droit de l'enfant abandonné et le système hongrois de protection de l'enfance / par Zoltan de Bosnyak et cte L. Edelsheim-Gyulai ; avec une préf. de M. le comte Jules Andrássy.
Date: 1909
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Histoire statistique et morale des enfants trouvés, suivie de cent tableaux / par J.-F. Terme et J.-B. Monfalcon.
Terme, J. F. (Jean François)Date: 1837
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The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after W. Hogarth, c. 1746.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: February 5. 1752Reference: 2474139i
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Amoy (Xiamen), Fukien province, China: foundling children outside a foundling hospital. Photograph by John Thomson, ca. 1870.
Thomson, J. (John), 1837-1921.Date: 1870Reference: 19738i
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Nursing and charitable acts of the "Soeurs de la Charité" or Sisters of Love; with the alphabet: L-S, ijk-yz. Coloured line engraving.
Reference: 17756i
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A man holds out his hand to a weeping woman [Fidelia]. Engraving by Springwell after R. Corbould, 1792.
Corbould, Richard, 1757-1831.Date: 31 August 1792Reference: 37539i
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The infants Romulus and Remus are found by the shepherd Faustulus in the Tiber and are brought to his house for fostering. Line engraving by R. Strange after Pietro da Cortona.
Pietro, da Cortona, 1597-1669.Date: [between 1750 and 1759?]Reference: 2855940i
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The mother of Moses sadly abandons her child by the river Nile. Etching by C. Heath, 1821, after R. Westall after N. Poussin, 1654.
Poussin, Nicolas, 1594?-1665.Date: 1 January 1821Reference: 18240i
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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
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: plan and elevations, with a scale and a key. Engraving by P. Fourdrinier [after T. Jacobsen, 1742].
Date: 1742Reference: 36637i
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The foundling Moses is brought to Pharoah's daughter. Engraving by W. Hogarth and L. Sullivan, 1752, after the former, c. 1746.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: Feb.ry. 5. 1752Reference: 20524i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, a busy scene in the street. Coloured engraving by N. Parr after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770.Date: 12 May 1794Reference: 36966i
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Thomas Coram, in the foreground an infant in a basket, in the background the Foundling Hospital. Line engraving by T. Priscott, 1817, after B. Nebot, 1741.
Nebot, Balthasar, active 1737-1741.Date: 1817Reference: 2115i
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Infant Orphan Asylum, Snaresbrook, Essex: perspective view. Coloured lithograph by G. Hawkins after G.G. Scott and W.B. Moffat.
Scott, George Gilbert, Sir, 1811-1878.Reference: 23971i
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Moses is retrieved from the Nile by Egyptian women. Engraving by S. Smith, 1786, after G. Robertson after F. Zuccarelli.
Zuccarelli, Francesco, 1702-1788.Date: 2 January 1786Reference: 20808i
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A Parish Board of Guardians discusses what to do with a foundling. Engraving.
O'Neill, George Bernard, 1828-1917.Reference: 27209i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: the main buildings, with numerous people in the foreground. Engraving, ca.1750.
Date: 1753Reference: 36979i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving, 1756.
Date: 1 May 1756Reference: 36972i
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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.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770.Date: 1753Reference: 36967i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving by T. Bowles after L. P. Boitard, 1753.
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, active 1733-1770.Date: 1753Reference: 36981i
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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard. Coloured engraving.
Reference: 36964i