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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....
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    The Foundling Hospital (formally the Hospital for the Maintenance and Education of Exposed and Deserted Young Children) was a children's home in London...
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    Thomas Coram Foundation for Children (category Foundling Hospital)
    but moved its heritage collections into the care of The Foundling Museum in 1998. The Foundling Hospital was begun by the philanthropic sea captain Thomas...
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    The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of...
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    2022, and joined the Foundling Museum's board of trustees two years later, having previously been appointed one of the museum's fellows. He was awarded...
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    Rego and Mat Collishaw she decorated the front of the Foundling Museum with the neon words "Foundlings and fledglings are angels of this earth". Emin has...
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    when she was pregnant. The piece was on display in 2020 at the London Foundling Museum in an exhibition entitled "Portraying Pregnancy: From Holbein to Social...
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    His involvement with the Foundling Hospital is today commemorated with a permanent exhibition in London's Foundling Museum, which also holds the Gerald...
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    Daughter, painted for the Foundling Hospital (1747, formerly at the Thomas Coram Foundation for Children, now in the Foundling Museum); Paul before Felix (1748)...
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