The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields: the entrance facade. Engraving by A. Soly.

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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields: the entrance facade. Engraving by A. Soly. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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This is the second building of Bethlem Hospital [Bedlam], built in 1675-1676 in Moorfields, London. In 1814-1815 the hospital removed to St. George's Fields, Southwark, and the Moorfields building was subsequently demolished

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London

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1 print : engraving ; 39.7 x 56.7 cm

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New Bedlam in More Fields ; Hospitium Mente Captorum Londinense ; Soly fecit Part of the lettering is contained in a swallow-tailed banderole in the sky

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B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 22/56 [p.43]

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Wellcome Collection 24860i

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