Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.

  • Fuseli, Henry, 1741-1825.
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10 October 1813
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20355i
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Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[London] (Royal Academy, Somerset House) : Published by them as the Act directs, 10 October 1813.

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1 print : stipple engraving ; image 53.9 x 66 cm

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Vision of the lazar house. ... Painted by H. Fuseli, R.A. Engraved by Moses Haughton. Lettering continues: "Immediately a place, before his eyes appear'd, sad, noisome, dark, a lazar house it seem'd, wherein were laid numbers of all diseas'd, all maladies. Demoniac phrenzy, moping melancholy, and moon struck madness, pining atrophy, marasmus, dire was the tossing, deep the groans; and over them triumphant death his dart shook, but delayd to strike, though oft invok'd. Milton's P.L. Book XI. Verse 477."

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