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  • A fire in the Livingston County Poorhouse, Geneseo, New York: mentally ill women try to escape. Wood engraving, 1867.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: women patients (mentally ill?) having a meal in a ward, with three nurses. Photograph.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing made for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from hilarious mania. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing made for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • Mad Margery, a young woman driven mad and living in the fields. Oil painting attributed to J.J. Hill, 18--.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with fear, or fear of everything, and with a propensity to attempt suicide. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing made for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with fear, or fear of everything, and with a propensity to attempt suicide. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing made for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A distraught bare-breasted woman with staring eyes, straw in her hair and chained wrists, representing madness. Mezzotint by W. Dickinson, 1775, after R.E. Pine.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from chronic dementia. Colour lithograph, 1896, after J. Williamson, ca. 1890.
  • A mentally ill patient known as the 'princess of Salpêtrière'. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1885.
  • A mentally ill patient known as the 'princess of Salpêtrière'. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1885.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Eight women representing the conditions of dementia, megalomania, acute mania, melancholia, idiocy, hallucination, erotic mania and paralysis, in the gardens of the Salpêtrière hospital, Paris. Lithograph by A. Gautier, 1857.
  • Bellevue Hospital, New York City: a female patient (criminal insane?) in a cell with barred windows. Photograph.
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; suggesting a cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving, 17--.
  • An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the removal of her 'folly' (insanity). Line engraving after N. Weydtmans after himself.
  • The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.
  • 7th self-portrait.
  • 7th self-portrait.