St Bartholomew's Hospital, London: a bird-eye view of the courtyard from Smithfield. Engraving.

London : John Bowles, 1723.

1 print : engraving ; image and border 14.4 x 21.3 cm

St Bartholomew's Hospital. ; Little St Bartholomew ; this Hospital is erected for poor sick, wounded & diseased persons... The name of the hospital is in a banderole in the sky Lettering continues: ... where great care is taken of them, & all necessaries for food, lodging, attendance, physick, & proper medicaments for their cure are administred [sic] to them. It formerly belonged to ye Priory of St. Bartholomew... By the report this Hospital made this present year 1723, it appears that in the year last past, 3,381 persons were cured and discharged ye Hospital; many of which were relieved (sic) with money & other necessaries at their departure, 217 were buried after much charge in their illness, & 565 are still remaining under cure...

B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 25/29 [p.67]

Wellcome Collection 22192i