Gallery›Wellcome Collection›Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.
Wellcome Collection

Two mothers with crying babies and one in a walking frame; comparing the human infant's helplessness with the self-sufficiency of newborn animals. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563.

Unknown artist

CC0 — Public Domain
Wellcome Collection

Lettering: Ingeritur mansum, incessum docet illa, loquelæ/ Os homini hæc format naturæ ut sponte nihil quá/ Fleresciat, sine doctrina, cum cætera cuncta/ Mox penna utantur, cursu, liquidoq́ue natatu ...

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