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

    • Turner, Charles, 1774-1857.
    Date
    [1885]
    Reference
    11557i
    • Pictures
  • Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

    • Reed, J.
    Date
    1858
    Reference
    20076i
    • Pictures
  • Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma / Stuart Sutherland.

    • Sutherland, N. S. (Norman Stuart)
    Date
    [1976]
    • Books
  • 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.

    • Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
    Date
    [ca, 1840?]
    Reference
    20044i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving after E.C. Wauters.

    • Wauters, Emile, 1846-1933.
    Date
    1800-1899
    Reference
    33204i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Nebuchadnezzar, gone mad, grovels like a beast of the earth; he gropes for his crown. Engraving, 16--.

    Reference
    20126i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • David playing the harp before Saul. Etching by W. van der Leeuw after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1630.

    • Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, 1606-1669.
    Reference
    18599i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • The literature of madness : autobiographical writings by mad people and mental patients in England and America from 1436 to 1975 / Dale Alfred Peterson.

    • Peterson, Dale Alfred.
    Date
    1977
    • Books
  • Collide : a zine on physical & mental illness. #3, Family / [edited by J.C. Parker] ; cover art by Moose Lane.

    • Parker, JC
    Date
    2015
    • Books
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.

    • Johnston, Alexander, 1815-1891.
    Date
    [1892]
    Reference
    38639i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A man suffering from attack by blue devils; representing depression or mental illness. Coloured etching after R. Newton, 1795.

    • Newton, Richard, 1777-1798.
    Reference
    11867i
    • Pictures
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  • 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.

    • Kaulbach, Wilhelm von, 1804-1874.
    Date
    1834
    Reference
    20318i
    • Pictures
  • 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.

    • Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.
    Date
    4 June 1783
    Reference
    25633i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • On the urine of the insane : a contribution to urology / by Adam Addison.

    • Addison, Adam.
    Date
    [1865]
    • Books
    • Online
  • 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.

    • Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.
    Date
    2 January 1813
    Reference
    25638i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • King George III of the United Kingdom. Etching by W. Lowry, 1817, after M.C. Wyatt.

    • Wyatt, Matthew Cotes, 1777-1862.
    Date
    Nov. 6th 1817
    Reference
    811687i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • Todesursache "Angina" : Zwangssterilisation und "Euthanasie" in der Landes-Heil- und Pflegeanstalt Bernburg / Ute Hoffmann.

    • Hoffmann, Ute.
    Date
    [1996]
    • Books
  • A surgeon in his workroom extracting stones from a patients head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Photogravure after J. Steen.

    • Steen, Jan, 1626-1679.
    Reference
    21106i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from acute dementia. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1836/1841, for Sir Alexander Morison.

    • Johnston, Alexander, 1815-1891.
    Date
    [1892]
    Reference
    38641i
    • Pictures
    • Online
  • A barber-surgeon extracting stones from a woman's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Watercolour by J. Cats, 1787, after B. Maton.

    • Maton, Bartholomaeus, 1643 or 1646-
    Date
    1787
    Reference
    21154i
    • Pictures
  • On the writing of the insane : with illustrations / by G. Mackenzie Bacon, M.D.

    • Bacon, G. Mackenzie.
    Date
    1870
    • Books
    • Online
  • Concepts of insanity in the United States, 1789-1865 / [Norman Dain].

    • Dain, Norman.
    Date
    [1964]
    • Books
  • 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.

    • Sommer, Henry J., 1871-
    Date
    1908
    • Books
    • Online
  • An analysis of the post-mortem appearances in 235 insane persons / by James C. Howden, M.D.

    • Howden, James C. (James Cunningham), 1830-1897.
    Date
    1871
    • Books
    • Online
  • 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.].

    • William IV, King of Great Britain, 1765-1837.
    Date
    1832
    • Books
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