Bedlam in Moor fields [graphic]

Description

Title: Bedlam in Moor fields [graphic]
Alternative Title: Bedlam in Moorfields
Creator: Cole, Benjamin, 1696 or 7-1783, printmaker
Contributor: Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703, architect.
Published / Created: [between 1730 and 1770]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London; seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. This is the second building of Bethlem Hospital, dating from 1675-6, before the addition of the side pavilions. The engraver has taken liberties with the gate statuary, showing a lion and unicorn couchant rather than the figures by Cibber of melancholy madness and raving madness. In 1814-1815 the hospital removed to St. George's Fields, Southwark, and the Moorfields building was subsequently demolished
Description: Title engraved below image.
Date supplied by cataloger, based on engraver Benjamin Cole's active dates.
Not in Adams, B. London illustrated 1604-1851.
Mounted to 26 x 32 cm.
Mounted on page 126 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Provenance: With the armorial bookplates of "Fraser, of Ledeclune, baronet" and "Herbert Henry Raphael" in volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 22 April 1901, to Sotheran. Schatzki, lot 1193; June 1961;
Extent: 1 print : image 17 x 28.6 cm, on sheet 18.4 x 28.6
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title: Page 126. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Collection / Other Creator: King, Richard, Esq.
Collection Date: London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].