Title

A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures', 1749

Caption

'A Perspective View of the Foundling Hospital with Emblematic Figures', 1749; showing mothers with babies waiting outside the gates of the Foundling Hospital in Camden, London. The hospital was founded by Captain Thomas Coram after seeing the plight of children left abandoned in the streets. In 1926 it was moved to Redhill, Surrey, and the original buildings were demolished.

Date

1749

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images

Reference

HRM19A77_274

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

54,0Mb (3,4Mb) / 16,7in x 12,6in / 5000 x 3777 (300dpi)

Keywords

exterior building buildings London England people child children hospital family baby babies statue mother gate motherhood century outside B&W Camden MONOCHROME mum black & white black and white B W 18th century Eighteenth Century English Heritage Foundling Hospital TGN engraving Anon Anonymous Thomas Charles Grignion C Grignion Thomas Coram Coram Captain Coram Grignion Charles Thomas Coram engraving