Rebecca Whiteley
Rebecca Whiteley is a PhD student in the History of Art department at University College London. She is currently researching her thesis on early modern images of the pregnant body and the unborn child in England and France. Her wider specialisms are in social art history and print culture.
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Images on the move in Mauriceau’s ‘The diseases of women’
Looking through copies of ‘The diseases of women with child and in child-bed’, the English translation of the seminal work on midwifery by François Mauriceau (1637–1709) first published in French in 1668, I noticed something distinctive. While in some editions… Continue reading
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‘The birth of mankind’ and the revolutionary image of the foetus in utero
This is one of the first images of the unborn child printed in Europe. Produced in the early 16th century in a book on midwifery, it offered readers a fascinating peek at the child hidden in the belly, and instituted… Continue reading