The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with figures in the foreground. Engraving.

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This is the second building of Bethlem Hospital [Bedlam], built in 1675-1676 in Moorfields, London. In 1814-1815 the hospital removed to St. George's Fields, Southwark, and the Moorfields building was subsequently demolished

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[London]

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1 print : engraving ; image 6.2 x 10.2 cm

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The Hospitall calld. Bedlam ; Bethlem Hospital, Moorfields, in 1720 Part of the lettering is in a swallow-tailed banderole in the sky

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B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 155/57 [p. 383]

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Wellcome Collection 25631i

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