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King George III. Mezzotint by C. Turner, ca. 1820.

Date

[1885]

Reference

11557i

Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

Date

1858

Reference

20076i

Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma / Stuart Sutherland.

Date

[1976]

An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, while two attendants manacle his legs: his lover, Sarah Young, cries in distress, they are surrounded by lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by H. Fernell after W. Hogarth, 1735.

Date

[ca, 1840?]

Reference

20044i

The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving after E.C. Wauters.

Date

1800-1899

Reference

33204i

Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Engraving, 16--.

Reference

20126i

David playing the harp before Saul. Etching by W. van der Leeuw after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1630.

Reference

18599i

The literature of madness : autobiographical writings by mad people and mental patients in England and America from 1436 to 1975 / Dale Alfred Peterson.

Date

1977

A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.

Date

[1892]

Reference

38639i

A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.

Reference

11867i

Mentally ill people in the garden of an asylum, a warden lurks in the background. Engraving by K.H. Merz under the direction of S. Amsler, c. 1834, after W. Kaulbach.

Date

1834

Reference

20318i

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a broken segmental pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by W. Sharp, 1783, after T. Stothard after C. Cibber, 1680.

Date

4 June 1783

Reference

25633i

On the urine of the insane : a contribution to urology / by Adam Addison.

Date

[1865]

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by A. Birrell, 1813, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.

Date

2 January 1813

Reference

25638i

King George III of the United Kingdom. Etching by W. Lowry, 1817, after M.C. Wyatt.

Date

Nov. 6th 1817

Reference

811687i

Todesursache "Angina" : Zwangssterilisation und "Euthanasie" in der Landes-Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Bernburg / Ute Hoffmann.

Date

[1996]

A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a patients head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Photogravure after J. Steen.

Reference

21106i

A man diagnosed as suffering from acute dementia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1836/1841, for Sir Alexander Morison.

Date

[1892]

Reference

38641i

A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.

Reference

21154i

On the writing of the insane : with illustrations / by G. Mackenzie Bacon, M.D.

Date

1870

Concepts of insanity in the United States, 1789-1865 / [Norman Dain].

Date

[1964]

Index of 1180 post-mortems of the insane : State hospital for the insane, Norristown, P.A. / by H.J. Sommer ; with an introduction by Allen J. Smith.

Date

1908

An analysis of the post-mortem appearances in 235 insane persons / by James C. Howden, M.D.

Date

1871

Anno secundo & tertio Gulielmi IV. Regis. Cap. CVII. An act for regulating for three years, and from thence until the end of the then next session of parliament, the care and treatment of insane persons in England. [11th August 1832.].

Date

1832

An itinerant surgeon extracing stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), in the background is a manic woman who is waiting for the operation. Photogravure, 1926, after T. de Brij after M. de Vos.

Reference

21085i