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Mentally ill

Images

  • A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • A madman designated as the poet Nathaniel Lee in Bethlem Hospital. Mezzotint by J. Watts, 1778.
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • David playing the harp before Saul. Etching by W. van der Leeuw after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1630.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    King George III. Mezzotint by C. Turner, ca. 1820.

    Turner, Charles, 1774-1857. | Date: [1885] | Reference: 11557i
    • Pictures

    Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

    | Date: 1858 | Reference: 20076i
    • Books
    • Online

    Quaranzine! : a zine about isolation, connectedness & survival in dark times / edited by Mad Covid.

    | Date: [2020]
    • Books

    Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma / Stuart Sutherland.

    Sutherland, N. S. (Norman Stuart) | Date: [1976]
    • Pictures
    • Online

    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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