M0013446: Illustration of The Retreat, York.

Previous title, replaced January 2022: York, the Retreat. Instituted in 1792.

Photograph of an illustration, possibly an etching, depicting the original building in which The Retreat was housed in York, 1792. This reproduction was made from the frontispiece of Tuke, Daniel Hack: Chapters in the history of the insane in the British Isles, London : Kegan Paul, Trench, 1882.

April 1954

1 photograph glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication from which the image depicted in the glass plate negative has been reproduced.

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

Please consult the digitised version as this item is fragile. Email library@wellcomecollection.org to request access to the physical item.