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  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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].
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Asylums ephemera. Box 1.
  • Cheshire Lunatic Asylum, Cheshire. Line engraving by Dean after Musgrove.
  • Colney Hatch, lunatic asylum.
  • The Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • 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.
  • The floor plan with scale of the Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dundrum, Dublin, Ireland. Transfer lithograph by J.R. Jobbins, 1850, after J. Owen.
  • The spider and fly : the advertiser takes this opportunity of informing his friends and a discerning public, that he continues the trade of making drunkards, paupers, thieves, beggars, adulterers, and murderers, on the most reasonable terms, and without notice.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.
  • Matthew Barwick. Drawing by T. Hennell, ca. 1935.
  • Part of Claybury Mental Hospital seen from the grounds. Drawing by T. Hennell, ca. 1935.
  • A tempestuous sea with a man chasing a boat.
  • A cross amidst trees and flames
  • A man hurtles to earth where strange beasts roam and a man's half-devoured skeleton lies.
  • A soldier in a lunatic asylum. Lithograph by Conrad Felixmüller, 1918.
  • Staff from the Royal Wester Counties Institution, 19th C