Unidentified patient from Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester - View of Crichton Royal Institution and Sketch of a Ruined Castle

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Two pictures, one on either side:

View of Crichton Royal Institution
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 20.7 x 28.4
Inscription reads, ' ''I know that you are always interested in the production of any patient and I beg to enclose for the use of some of your wards a sketch made by one of my gentleman of your Institution taken from a woodcut in a Number of the Saturday Magazine.'' Extract letter Dr Dickson: Cheadle, Chesire, 1 June 1854', 'Crichton Lunatic Asylum'.

Copy of a woodcut print which appeared in The Saturday Magazine in 1839 at the opening of Crichton Royal Institution.

On the reverse:
Sketch of a Ruined Castle
Medium: Watercolour
Size: 20.7 x 28.4

Unidentified patient from Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester - View of Crichton Royal Institution and Sketch of a Ruined Castle

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