Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital., and 1 print : etching with stipple, hand-colored ; plate mark 250 x 305 mm.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Charles Fox, in strait jacket, with unruly hair and a wild look on his face, is examined by Dr. Monro, the physician to Bedlam, who looks at him through a quizzing glass. Fox confesses that his troubles come from loosing his place, i.e., the fall of the Fox-North Coalition, while Dr. Monro pronounces him an incurable
Alternative Title:
Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat ...
Description:
Title from Grego., Six lines of verse in two columns below image: Dazzled with hope he could not see the cheat, of aiming with impatience to be great. With wild ambition in his heart we find, farewell content and quiet of his mind. For glittering clouds he left the solid shore, and wonted happiness returns no more., Printmaker from British Museum catalogue., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Great Britain -- Hospitals, psychiatric -- Psychiatric patients -- Bethlehem Hospital.
Publisher:
Pubd. April 4th 1784, by W. Humphry, No. 227 Strand
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Fox, Charles James, 1749-1806, Monro, John, 1715-1791, and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):
Politics and government, Mentally ill persons, Mental institutions, Physicians, Physical restraints, Straitjackets, and Quizzing glasses
Title derived from text written in image., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and The artist was an arsonist, but was found not guilty on grounds of insanity and was a patient in Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England).
Subject (Name):
Wallace, William, Sir, -1305.
Subject (Topic):
Crowns, Daggers and swords, Straitjackets, and Art and mental illness
