A distraught bare-breasted woman with staring eyes, straw in her hair and chained wrists, representing madness. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1775, after R.E. Pine.

London : [William Dickinson?], 1775.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 37.5 x 27.6 cm

Painted by R. Pine. Engrav'd by W. Dickinson.

Chaloner Smith (op. cit. p.171) says of Dickinson: "in 1773 he commenced to publish his own works from Litchfield-street, Soho, afterwards, 180, Strand, and between 1774 and 1778, from Henrietta street, Covent Garden, many of his productions then being amongst the most brilliant specimens of the art-powerful, full of colour, excellent in drawing, and rendering of the touches of the painters"

Not found in: John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, part 1, London 1878 (catalogue of prints by William Dickinson)

Jane Kromm, The art of frenzy: public madness in the visual culture of Europe, 1500-1850, London; New York: Continuum, 2002, pp. 130-139

Wellcome Collection 20028i