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  • Mary Shaw, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1871.
  • Charles Gouldthorpe, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Elizabeth Hardcastle, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Ellen Foley, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1873.
  • Elizabeth Hardcastle, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • William Hardcastle, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • The County Lunatic Asylum, Brentwood, Essex: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1857, after H.E. Kendall.
  • The County Lunatic Asylum, Brentwood, Essex: bird's eye view. Wood engraving by W.E. Hodgkin, 1857, after H.E. Kendall.
  • St. Ann Heath Lunatic Asylum, Virginia Water, Windsor. Wood engraving by D.R. Warry, 1872, after Crossland, Salomans, & Jones.
  • William Wilkinson, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, ca. 1872.
  • William Wilkinson, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, ca. 1872.
  • William Wilkinson, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, ca. 1872.
  • John Edward Gartside, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • John Edward Gartside, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. Photograph attributed to James Crichton-Browne, 1872.
  • Maria Cosway painting in a lunatic's cell in an asylum. Coloured etching, 1786.
  • Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: bird's eye view with detailed floor plan and key. Wood engraving by Laing after Daukes.
  • Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: bird's eye view with detailed floor plan and key. Wood engraving by Laing after Daukes.
  • The floor plan with scale of the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • The floor plan with scale of the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • Metropolitan Lunatic Asylum, Kew, Victoria (Australia): the hospital cook and the boys who help him, on the steps of the kitchen cottage. Photograph.
  • A treatise on the nature, symptoms, causes, and treatment of insanity, with practical observations on lunatic asylums, and a description of the pauper lunatic asylum for the county of Middlesex, at Hanwell, with a detailed account of its management / [Sir William Charles Ellis].
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.
  • Facade, grounds and floor plan of the lunatic asylum, Abergavenny. Engraving by C.D. Laing after B. Sly after Fulljames and Waller.
  • Facade, grounds and floor plan of the lunatic asylum, Abergavenny. Engraving by C.D. Laing after B. Sly after Fulljames and Waller.
  • A lunatic in a barred cell imagines himself to be a leading actor in a melodrama. Etching by T.L. Busby, ca. 1826.
  • The Prince of Wales looks from a window of Carlton House at a crowd of people and a woman on a broomstick; George III looks on through a telescope. Coloured etching by "H. Shade" after "Nicholas Lunatic".
  • Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830.
  • In a lunatic asylum, and in the company of a variety of other deranged individuals, a half-naked Ramble Gripe, his wrists chained, is restrained by orderlies. Engraving by T. Bowles, 1735.
  • Lunacy in many lands : being an introduction to the reports on the lunatic asylums of various countries, visited in 1882-5 / by G.A. Tucker, and presented by him to the government of New South Wales, Australia.