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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.Date: [ca, 1840?]Reference: 20044i
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Aeolus, at the request of Juno, opens a door in a mountainside, releasing the winds that will wreck the fleet of Aeneas; representing the element air. Engraving by C. Dupuis, 1718, after Louis de Boullogne the younger.
Boulogne, Louis, 1654-1733.Date: 1718Reference: 23945i
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Leather & rubber / Clone Zone.
Date: [Approximately 1992?]
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Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a broken segmental pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by W. Sharp, 1783, after T. Stothard after C. Cibber, 1680.
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.Date: 4 June 1783Reference: 25633i
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Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by A. Birrell, 1813, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.Date: 2 January 1813Reference: 25638i