Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.

  • Drake, Katherine.
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[185?-?]
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20050i
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Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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The Somersetshire County Asylum for Pauper Lunatics was founded at Wells in 1845.

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Wells : Backhouse ; [London] (96 Strand) : Ackermann & Co, [185?-?]

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Lunatics ball. Somerset County asylum. Drawn and lithographed by Katherine Drake.

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Wellcome Collection 20050i

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