Concept
Dangerously mentally ill
Images
![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.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0013192/full/420%2C/0/default.jpg)
![Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving in outline by [H.D.], 1816, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/V0013200/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
![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 C. Warren, 1808, after C. Cibber, 1680.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/L0011832/full/600%2C/0/default.jpg)
Catalogue
- Books
Broadmoor revealed : Victorian crime and the lunatic asylum / by Mark Stevens.
Stevens, Mark (Archivist)Date: 2013- Pictures
Bellevue Hospital, New York City: male patients (criminal insane?) in bed in ward, prison bars in foreground guarded by policeman. Photograph.
Date: 1885-1898Reference: 530710i
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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
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A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
Busby, Thomas Lord.Date: [1826?]Reference: 726148iPart of: Busby's humorous etchings.