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Spanish nurses, 1845. Creator: Smyth.

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Spanish nurses, 1845. '...the best characteristics will be found in the two groups of wet-nurses, of whom there are hundreds in the Prado promenade. " Fat wet-nurses," says a recent tourist, "from the mountains of Santander, with showy handkerchiefs tied about their heads, tight cloth jackets, and gorgeous laced petticoats, frequent this place with their squalling charges; not to mention the juvenile gambols of a crowd of little angels of both sexes." There is something peculiarly aboriginal in the mode of carrying the child, swung in a sort of fringed cot at the back; it reminds one of the North American Indian custom. This sisterhood of nurses are said to be fast disappearing'. From "Illustrated London News", 1845, Vol VII.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM21A07_109

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Droits gérés

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57,6Mo (4,4Mo) / 34,4cm x 42,0cm / 4062 x 4960 (300dpi)

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female women woman people child children job baby babies country Spain Spanish costume occupation clothes British dress dresses traditional costume location Victorian century Britain profession newspapers press clothing B&W full length full-length baby carrier nanny 19th century black & white black and white B W wet nurse nineteenth century The Print Collector Illustrated London News traditional dress wet-nurse ILN newspaper engraving Smyth