A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and On page 77 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate mark: 34.6 x 39.7 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Additional title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and On page 77 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate mark: 35.2 x 39.7 cm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman, and a warder; in the background, an inmate who believes himself to be God has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall. Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state, and imprint from Paulson., State 1: etched state proof before letters., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., Ms. note in Steevens's hand in pencil above print: Sold at Gulston Auction for £5-7-6. In pencil on lower margin of print: aquafortis print., Print is lined, multiple losses to margins with some repairs., and On page 76 in volume 1.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
Plate 15. Queen Charlotte's collection of Hogarth works.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress attended by Sarah Young, a clergyman and a warder; in the background, other inmates (including one who believes himself to be God and has cheap prints of saints pinned to his cell wall). Two elegantly dressed female visitors whisper together, the one holding a fan against her face to shield from her view an inmate in a cell who believes he is King and sits naked, save for a crown, urinating on to his straw bed. The wall and the banister of a staircase to right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude and an image of the reverse of a coin, lettered "Britannia/1763", and the name of a well-known prostitute, Betty Careless
Alternative Title:
Madness, thou chaos of [the] brain, what art?
Description:
Title, state and imprint from Paulson., Added title from first lines of verse etched below image., Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., and On page 78 in volume 1. Trimmed within plate: 355 x 405 mm.
Publisher:
Wm. Hogarth
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Rake's progress
A loose plagiary (reversed) after Hogarth's eighth plate in the Rake's Progress series: A scene in Bedlam with Tom half-naked and in a state of distress restrained by attendants; two women revive a fainting Sarah Young (right). Tom's old wife looks at herself in a hand mirror (left). The wall to the right are covered with various graffiti including calculations of longitude
Alternative Title:
Soon hurried thro' a course of vice ...
Description:
Title from original as cited by Paulson. Added titel from first line of verse etched below image. Verses (in four columns six lines each) continue: " ... with sots & panders, whores & dice, his mind by jarring passions tost ... with superstitions fears sit quaking, or combat devils of their own making.", Eighth scene in A rake's progress. See Paulson., After the painting at Sir John Soane's Museum., Cf. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 3, no. 2257., Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 139., and Mounted to: 353 x 435 mm.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Subject (Topic):
Asylums, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, Parables, and Rake's progress
Title supplied by curator., Date and place of publication supplied by curator., In upper left corner: Pag. 160., From: Jonathan Swift, A Tale of a Tub., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
Subject (Topic):
Psychiatric hospital patients, Psychiatric hospitals, Restraint of patients, and Mentally ill persons
Don Quixote and the knight of the rock; on a rocky mountain pass, Quixote graciously addresses the madman, Cardenio, who stands at left in ragged clothes and distrait posture; at right Sancho, standing beside the goatherd and a goat, looks on angrily
Alternative Title:
Freeing of the galley slaves
Description:
Title from Paulson., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "Page 317. Don Quixote. Pl. 7."--Above image., and Cf. Paulson, R. Hogarth's graphic works (3rd ed.), no. 98.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel de, 1547-1616.
Subject (Topic):
Goats, Herders, Mentally ill persons, and Swords & daggers
"Portraits, full-length: Dr. Glen on the left talking to Robertson, who stands opposite, his hat in his right hand and a staff topped with two heads."--British Museum online catalogue, description of an earlier state
Alternative Title:
Dr. Glen & Laird Robertson
Description:
Title from volume in which the print was issued., Later state, with plate number added., Plate from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings, by the late John Kay ... Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 1., Plate numbered "9" in lower right corner., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Idiocy.
Publisher:
Adam and Charles Black
Subject (Name):
Glen, Dr., -1786 and Robertson, James, -1790
Subject (Topic):
Mentally ill persons, Physicians, and Staffs (Sticks)
Title supplied by curator., Date derived from printmaker's date of death., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Electrotherapy; Patients, psychiatric; Hospitals, France.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Salpêtrière (Hospital).
Subject (Topic):
Electrotherapeutics, Medical equipment & supplies, Mental institutions, Mentally ill persons, and Physicians
Title devised by curator., Date of production based on artist's tour as combat artist., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Subject (Topic):
World War, 1939-1945, Post-traumatic stress disorder, Mentally ill persons, Military hospitals, and Military medicine
