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  • Vaccination: description and vignettes of cow and of a suckling mother. Etching with letterpress by L. Baltard after himself, 18--.
  • A baby breastfeeding. Colour lithograph by Kenya Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A poor Savoyard woman surrounded by her children, one of whom she is breast-feeding. Engraving by N. de Larmessin III, 1746, after J.B.M. Pierre.
  • A mother breast feeds her baby as another woman looks on: promoting benefits of breastfeeding in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Wellstart International and Johns Hopkins University/Population Communication Services, ca. 1994.
  • Hospital initiative on breastfeeding in Djibouti. Colour lithograph for Ministère de la Santé, ca. 2000.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A woman breastfeeding, a child receiving food by spoon and an array of health foods: child nutrition in Morocco. Colour lithograph by Moroccan Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A woman breastfeeding her baby; promoting family health in Ethiopia. Colour lithograph, ca. 2000.
  • A drunken Silenus being helped to the base of a tree where lie female satyrs with their young. Etching by P. Soutman after P. P. Rubens.
  • A wood carving of a woman feeding her baby. Watercolour, 19--.
  • A woman breast feeding one child and holding two others; representing charity. Engraving by R. Morghen, 1795, after A. Allegri, il Correggio.
  • The dangers of water consumption in babies and importance of breastfeeding in Djibouti. Colour lithograph by Ministère de la Santé and Unicef, ca. 2000.
  • A mother wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages, with a child, the baby's nurse, and two other servants. Engraving by A. Bosse, 1633.
  • A woman lying down breast-feeding her baby. Etching by F. Bartolozzi after G.F. Barbieri, il Guercino.
  • Pero breastfeeding her father Cimon to assuage his hunger. Etching by Francesco Cozza.
  • A female gipsy breast feeding her child. Mezzotint by H. Meyer, 1817, after D. Wilkie.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child among her family. Etching after A. van Ostade, 1641.
  • A wet nurse breast feeding the Duke of Burgundy, grandson of Louis XIV. Engraving.
  • An alchemist hunched over his crucible; an assistant reads him a recipe, watched by an onlooker; the alchemist's wife weeps in the dim background, a baby clasped to her breast. Engraving by J. Boydell, c. 1760, after J. Steen.
  • A mother tended by nurses sleeps as her new born child breastfeeds: The Bauchi State Mothercare Project in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Bauchi State Mothercare Project, ca. 1994.
  • A woman breastfeeding her child among her busy family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1786, after A. van Ostade.
  • Telephus (son of Hercules) being suckled by a doe in the temple of Athena where as an infant he was left to die. Colour photogravure after a mural at Herculaneum.
  • A woman breast feeding her baby in the family's home and workshop; perhaps a comparison to the Holy Family. Engraving by J. Le Bas and P. Martini, 1772, after Rembrandt van Rijn, 1640.
  • A wet-nurse attempts to breast feed John the Baptist who is held by the Virgin(?); Elizabeth is recovering in bed, Zacharias looks on proudly. Engraving.
  • Cybele, a Phrygian earth goddess, surrounded by putti, lions, fruit and general abundance, a flying putto carries a model of a building on his head. Engraving by M. Küssel after S. Vouet.
  • A fashionable mother wearing a dress with slits across the breasts in order to feed her baby before she dashes off to the carriage waiting outside. Coloured etching by J. Gillray, 1796.
  • Aesculapius (representing medicine) routing death, Ceres (?) supplying milk to the starving. Drawing attributed to J.-C. Bordier du Bignon, 1822.
  • A woman breast-feeding her child. Line engraving by MD after J.Ch., [16--].
  • A woman wrapping a baby in swaddling bandages after breast feeding it, several other women and a small child sit with her. Engraving by A. Bosse.
  • A contented mother breastfeeds her baby in a hospital bed tended by a nurse: promoting benefits of breastfeeding in Nigeria. Colour lithograph by Wellstart International and Johns Hopkins University/Population Communication Services, ca. 1994.