# The London Foundling Hospital and Eighteenth-Century Objects of Charit, Vol. 1

By **Hilary E Wyss**

- ISBN-13: 9781009459907
- Series: [Elements In Eighteenth-Century Connections](https://mybookbandits.com/series/elements-in-eighteenth-century-connections)
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 75
- Published: 19 Feb 2026

## About this book

The Foundling Hospital was established in London in 1739 to save impoverished infants from destitution and abandonment by separating them from their mothers and raising them in an institutional setting. The Hospital, which also housed an art collection, concert series, and fashionable park, became a monument to the lar

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