Image: Mother in bed, with seven children in a cradle (British Library Royal 15 E VI f 273r (detail)
Description: Illumination showing the interior of a bed chamber. A woman, the new mother (Beatrix) is sitting up in bed gesturing toward an immense cradle containing her seven infants (the swan children). The cradle is being held from behing by a second woman (her mother-in-law, Matabrune). Detail from a miniature from the en:Talbot Shrewsbury Book, illustrating the Swan-Knight story (the Birth of the Knight of the Swan / la Naissance du chevalier au cygne)
Title: Mother in bed, with seven children in a cradle (British Library Royal 15 E VI f 273r (detail)
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Author: Talbot Master
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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