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The Foundling Museum in Brunswick Square, London, tells the story of the Foundling Hospital, Britain's first home for children at risk of abandonment. The museum houses the nationally important Foundling Hospital Collection as well as the Gerald Coke Handel Collection, an internationally important collection of material relating to Handel and his contemporaries.
The Foundling Hospital (formally the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London, England, founded in 1739 by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas Coram.
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The entrance to the Coram Campus. The Thomas Coram Foundation for Children is a large children's charity in London operating under the name Coram.It was founded by eighteenth-century philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram who campaigned to establish a charity that would care for the high numbers of abandoned babies in London, setting up the Foundling Hospital in 1739 at Lamb's Conduit Fields in ...
He also composed an anthem specially for a performance at the Hospital, now called the Foundling Hospital Anthem. [23] The Foundling Hospital charity continues today and is known as Coram. [24] The original site is also home to a seven-acre children's park and play area, Coram's Fields, which refuses entry to adults unaccompanied by children ...
Foundling Museum, London Portrait of Captain Thomas Coram is a 1740 portrait of philanthropist Thomas Coram painted by William Hogarth . The portrait, which represents Hogarth's highest achievement in direct portraiture, was not created as a commission and was instead donated to Coram's Foundling Hospital . [ 1 ]
The N.C. Children’s Museum is anticipated to be a 70,000-square-foot building with four levels, most of which will be built into the slope of a hill at 510 Mt. Carmel Church Road in Chapel Hill.
The painting is now part of the Foundling Hospital art collection at The Foundling Museum in London. [3] [7] During the 1740s Highmore had become connected with the new Foundling Hospital which aimed to support desperate and abused women. His involvement caused him to engage with issues relating to women's vulnerability to sexual assault and ...