A visit to Bedlam [graphic]

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Title: A visit to Bedlam [graphic]
Creator: Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Holland, William, active 1782-1817, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 August 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. August 7, 1794, by Willm. Holland, No. 50 Oxford St.
Abstract: Three mad persons look out the small windows of their cells. The man on the left wears a makeshift crown and grins out at the horrified couple who looks in. Above his cell is written "You lie, you mad dog, I am as hones a woman as any Parson's wife in London!" And futher below, "You are a cuckold." The two men on the right look at the two scowling women in their cells in horror
Description: Title etched below image.
Publisher's advertisement following imprint: Admittance to his Caricature Exhibition [...?] sh.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Patients, psychiatric -- Hospitals, interior -- Bethlehem Hospital.
Mounted to 43 x 33 cm.
Slight alteration to the design in ink.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew Edmunds; May 2017.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.7 x 25 cm, on sheet 38.7 x 27 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Great Britain.
Subject (Name): Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic): Hospitals
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychotherapy patients
Anger
Fear
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
Subjects: Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Hospitals > Great Britain
Psychiatric hospitals
Psychotherapy patients
Anger
Fear
Mental institutions
Mentally ill persons
England > 1794
England > London > 1794

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