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.

London : [William Dickinson?], 1775.

1 print : mezzotint ; platemark 37.5 x 27.6 cm

Painted by R. Pine. Engrav'd by W. Dickinson.

Not found in: John Chaloner Smith, British mezzotinto portraits, part 1, London 1878 (catalogue of prints by William Dickinson)

Jane Kromm, The art of frenzy: public madness in the visual culture of Europe, 1500-1850, London; New York: Continuum, 2002, pp. 130-139

Wellcome Collection 20028i

Chaloner Smith (op. cit. p.171) says of Dickinson: "in 1773 he commenced to publish his own works from Litchfield-street, Soho, afterwards, 180, Strand, and between 1774 and 1778, from Henrietta street, Covent Garden, many of his productions then being amongst the most brilliant specimens of the art—powerful, full of colour, excellent in drawing, and rendering of the touches of the painters"