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The Foundling Hospital, Holborn, London: a bird's-eye view of the courtyard, numbered for a key. Coloured engraving after L. P. Boitard, 1753. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Louis-Pierre Boitard; Theodore Jacobsen; Foundling Hospital (London)
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. It was established for the "education and maintenance of exposed and deserted young children."
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. Iconographic Collections Keywords: Louis-Pierre Boitard; Theodore Jacobsen; Foundling Hospital (London); Nathaniel Parr
Description: Plate engraving of Foundling Hospital in Holburn, London: Date: Engraving dated 1754, after painting 1752: Source: Engraving by B. Cole in Survey of ...
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 ...
Its Upper Quadrangle, known to students as "the Yard," is one of its most famous and photographed campus locations, and can be visited via Howard's virtual tour. University of Chicago, Harper Library.
Ashlyns School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England.The school was established in 1935 as the final location of the Foundling Hospital, a children's charity founded in London in 1739.