1739.
1. Several children of The Foundling Hospital; the boys with mathematical instruments; the girls with spinning wheels. Over the door of the house they come out of, are the King's-arms. A porter is bringing in a child, followed by Capt. Coram, whose benevolent countenance[1] is directed towards a kneeling woman. On the right hand is a view of a church; near it a woman lifting a child from the ground; at a little distance another infant exposed near a river. In the back of the picture, a prospect of ships sailing. W. Hogarth inv. F. Morellon la Cave sculp. London.
This is prefixed to an engraved Power of Attorney, from the trustees of The Foundling Hospital, to those gentlemen who were appointed to receive subscriptions towards the building, &c. The whole together is printed on a half sheet.