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The safest asylum is a mother's breast, 19th century (illustration)

The safest asylum is a mother's breast, 19th century (illustration)
19th-century
danger
defense
child
fable
poetry
France
Europe
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parent
family
fear
protection
snake
reptile
animal
black-and-white
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print
rock-(stone)
illustration
Grandville-(1803-47)
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19th-century
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poetry
France
Europe
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mother
parent
family
fear
protection
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animal
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Grandville-(1803-47)
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The safest asylum is a mother's breast, 19th century (illustration)

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Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard) (1803-47) / French

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Patrice Cartier

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printout

Date

C19th AD

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Illustration by Jean-Jacques Grandville (Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard 1803-47) for a collection of fables by Jean-Pierre Claris de FLORIAN (1755-1794) “The safest asylum is a mother's breast”: a child takes refuge from his mother who protects him from the attack of a rattlesnake by threatening the latter with a stone.

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Largest available format 3639 × 2089 px 6 MB
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