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Two men, wrongly confined by Dr George Man Burrows in his lunatic asylum in Clapham, win a legal case against him and force him to flee. Lithograph by W. Heath, 1830. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.
On the left, Edward Davies, a tea-dealer of Philpot Lane, in the City of London between Fenchurch Street and Eastcheap. He had successfully brought a suit against Burrows for wrongful internment in the latter's lunatic asylum, the Retreat in Clapham. In the background stands Freeman Anderdon, another patient wrongly confined by Burroughs: he is dressed in an eccentric manner and holds one of the many paintings on which he had spent much of his fortune (Suzuki loc. cit.). Right, Burrows flees, accompanied by his associates. A woman who falls backwards is presumably Mrs Bywater, the mother of Edward Davies who had requested his confinement
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