Tag: London

• Updated: Hogarth’s Infant Carriers

  

  Today we’re looking at baby carriers in William Hogarth’s The March of the Guards to Finchley from 1750. The March of the Guards to Finchley, depicts a fictional troop of buffoonish British troops in Tottenham Court Road, in London, on their way to fight the Jacobean forces in the uprising of 1745. It’s an example […]

  Aradia Wyndham

  March 3, 2020

  Babies, Video

  18th century, art history, baby, Baby carriers, babywearing, British Army, England, Foundling Hospital, Foundling Museum, Georgian, Hanoverian, Henry Fielding, Jacobean, London, William Hogarth, Working moms

• Babywearing in Hogarth’s London

  

  Let’s talk about the baby carriers in William Hogarth’s painting, “March of the Guards to Finchley” on display at the Foundling Museum in London.

  Aradia Wyndham

  November 12, 2017

  Babies, Blog

  18th century, art history, babywearing, featured, foster care, foster children, Foundling Museum, foundlings, illegitimate children, infant carriers, London, March of the Guards to Finchley, William Hogarth