M0017537: Two illustrations of visitors at Bedlam

Previous title, replaced October 2020: Visiting Old Bedlam.

Reproduction of two illustrations of people visiting Bedlam (now Bethlem Royal Hospital). The first is a drawing by George Cruickshank of Jack Sheppard visits his mother. The second is an etching, 1794, by Richard Newton. Published in O'Donoghue, Edward Geoffrey: The story of Bethlehem Hospital from its foundation in 1247, London : T.F. Unwin, 1914.

August 1959

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 12 x 16.5 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

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.