A note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital' Size:S: 60 x 45cm Belgium 20th century

Belgium 20th century

Half-length portrait of Nevil Maskelyne seated in a green square-backed chair

Original: pencil on board

wrote on the rabbit tapeworm Coenurus for the London Medical Gazette in 1833 and later corresponded on the subject with Richard Owen FRS (1804-1892)

Leicester City goalkeeper Peter Shilton with Frank Worthington on the training pitch at Leicester

A note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital' Size:S: 60 x 45cm Belgium 20th centuryA note from Thomas Coram, the founder of the 'Foundling Hospital', 1747, (1840). A note to the steward or matron from philanthropist Captain Thomas Coram (1668 1751) who established the Foundling Hospital in London where destitute mothers could anonymously leave their babies. Illustration from Historical and Literary Curiosities consisting of Fac similies of Original Documents, by Charles John Smith, (Henry G Bohn, London, 1840).