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1. "Drawn from memory after a real scene in the Hospital of S. Spirito at Rome ..." [graphic]

Creator:: Holloway, Thomas, 1748-1827, printmaker
Published / Created:: 20 Oct. 1791.
Call Number:: Print01202
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image center., Place of publication derived from publisher's place of business., From: Johann Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physiognomy, edited by Thomas Holloway, London: John Stockdale, 1810., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity; Hospitals, Interior; Emotions; Medicine & religion; Patients, psychiatric; Terror
Publisher:: Published as the Act directs by T. Holloway
Subject (Geographic):: Italy.
Subject (Name):: Ospedale Santo Spirito in Sassia (Rome, Italy).
Subject (Topic):: Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, Physiognomy, Exorcism, Hospitals, Mentally ill persons, Fear, Monks, and Crucifixes
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > "Drawn from memory after a real scene in the Hospital of S. Spirito at Rome ..." [graphic]

2. Bedlam in Moor fields [graphic]

Creator:: Cole, Benjamin, 1696 or 7-1783, printmaker
Published / Created:: [between 1730 and 1770]
Call Number:: Quarto 724 771N
Collection Title:: Page 126. New London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality.
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London; seen from the north, with ladies and gentlemen walking in the foreground. This is the second building of Bethlem Hospital, dating from 1675-6, before the addition of the side pavilions. The engraver has taken liberties with the gate statuary, showing a lion and unicorn couchant rather than the figures by Cibber of melancholy madness and raving madness. In 1814-1815 the hospital removed to St. George's Fields, Southwark, and the Moorfields building was subsequently demolished
Alternative Title:: Bedlam in Moorfields
Description:: Title engraved below image., Date supplied by cataloger, based on engraver Benjamin Cole's active dates., Not in Adams, B. London illustrated 1604-1851., Mounted to 26 x 32 cm., and Mounted on page 126 in a copiously extra-illustrated copy of: King, R. The new London spy, or, A twenty-four hours ramble through the bills of mortality. London : Printed for J. Cooke [and 3 others], [1771?].
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Name):: Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England), and Bethlem Royal Hospital (London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Hospitals, Mental illness, Trees, Staffs (Sticks, canes, etc.), Goats, Fans, and Psychiatric hospitals
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Bedlam in Moor fields [graphic]

3. Crazy Ann Her midnight meals in secrecy she takes ... / [graphic]

Creator:: Giller, W. (William), approximately 1805-, printmaker
Published / Created:: [not after 1868]
Call Number:: Print01174
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title etched below image., Date derived from printmaker's active dates., Place of publication derived from printmaker's place of residence., Vide Bloomfield's Farmer's Boy., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Lovesickness, Mental illness, Mentally ill persons, and Night
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Crazy Ann Her midnight meals in secrecy she takes ... / [graphic]

4. Dance in a madhouse [graphic]

Creator:: Bellows, George, 1882-1925, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1917]
Call Number:: Print20079
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title written in pencil below image center., Inscribed in plate: Geo Bellows., Date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Place of publication derived from artist's place of residence., In pencil at lower right: Geo Bellows., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity; Patients, psychiatric; Hospitals, U.S.A., and In lower margin in pencil: B43 [illegible]; x20 300.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, Psychiatry, Mentally ill persons, Dance, Couples, Despair, and Excitement
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Dance in a madhouse [graphic]

5. Ecce homo [graphic].

Creator:: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, atrributed name
Published / Created:: 1775.
Call Number:: 775.00.00.17
Image Count:: 1
Abstract:: Depicts a furious man (William Austin) on a sidewalk, shouting "Damn your foollish [sic] caricatures" as he attacks the windows of Matthias Darly's London printshop with his walking-stick. On his left arm he carries a portfolio as a shield (emblazoned with a broken anchor). From it fall papers and drawings, including a prescription (suggestive of madness) from Dr. Monrow (i.e. John Monro, physician of Bethlehem Hospital). One print in the shop window echoes the present image, while Austin's "Proposals for opening a museum of drawings" is trodden underfoot by a dog in the foreground
Description:: Title etched below text., Text beneath image: "Be it known to all men that I -- upon just cause before God and men do declare & pronounce war with and against all and every printshop and printseller within and without the city of London....", Text on shield is a quote from John Gay's My own epitaph: Life's a jest and all things show it. I thought it once, but now I know it., At bottom of plate: B--b--y., Attributed to Francesco Bartolozzi. See British Museum catalogue., and Cropped within plate mark. Numbered in ink by an unidentified hand: 46.
Publisher:: Published as the act directs by Danl. Demoniae
Subject (Geographic):: England and London.
Subject (Name):: Austin, William, 1721-1820., Darly, Matthias., and Monro, John, 1715-1791.
Subject (Topic):: Mental illness, Shields, Dogs, Coats of arms, Prints, Stores & shops, and Window displays
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Ecce homo [graphic].

6. Mad Tom [graphic]

Creator:: Earlom, Richard, 1743-1822, printmaker
Published / Created:: [2 December 1823]
Call Number:: Print01205
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title below image., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity.
Publisher:: Published 2nd December 1823, by R.H. Laurie, 53 Fleet Street, London
Subject (Topic):: Mental illness and Mentally ill persons
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Mad Tom [graphic]

7. Madness [graphic].

Creator:: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1760]
Call Number:: Print01206
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from item., Date supplied by curator., Place of publication derived from printmaker's country of residence., In margin lower right: [rubbed out]., Originally inscribed: R.Pine pinxt. Js McArdell fecit. Madness. Publish'd according to Act of Parliamt. May 30th 1760., See: Smith, J. C. British mezzotint portraits, no. 196., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Temporary local Medical Library subject headings: Patients, psychiatric.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Mental illness, Mentally ill, Mentally ill persons, and Cells (Rooms & spaces).
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Madness [graphic].

8. Psychopathic ward [graphic]

Creator:: Riggs, Robert, 1896-1970, printmaker
Published / Created:: [1945]
Call Number:: Print20065
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Description:: Title from note in pencil at lower left: 10 Psychopathic Ward., Date supplied by catalogue raisonné., Artist's name on plate lower right., Place of publication derived from subject., Riggs researched subject at Philadelphia State Hospital for the Mentally Ill (Byberry)., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Hospitals, Interior; Patients, psychiatric., and Artist's signature in pencil lower right.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Mental illness, Psychiatric hospitals, Women, Sick persons, Hospital wards, Mental states, Despair, Fear, and Hysteria
Found in:: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Psychopathic ward [graphic]

9. Upon Lady Granny in her (supposed) grandure [graphic].

Published / Created:: [between 1714 and 1734]
Call Number:: 700.00.00.20
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: A raggedly dressed, cross-eyed old woman stands in front of St. James's Palace. She poses with her right hand raised, fingers crossed and with her left hand held down, making a sign with her forefinger and thumb. Her tongue hangs out over her lips
Alternative Title:: Upon Granny in her native poverty
Description:: Title engraved at top of the image., Text engraved at bottom of image: Upon Granny in her native poverty., Engraved by T.S. after M. Laroon; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits., Printmaker attibution to John Savage from unverified data in local catalog record., Later state, with previous title "Granny" and statements of responsibility "Laroon pinx." and "TS [monogram] ex." replaced in lower margin with verses; new title and additional verses also added at top of image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1851,0308.308., Date range for publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1887,1216.3., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Eight lines of verse in two columns beneath title: That fools have fortune we may now aver, since Granny laughs at them [that] laught at her ..., Eight lines of verse in two columns below image: The scene is alter'd Granny's glory, coach and fortune's all a story ..., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Insanity., Window mounted to 29 x 20 cm; mounted to 34 x 23 cm., and Watermark.
Publisher:: publisher not identified
Subject (Topic):: Poverty, Mental illness, Poor persons, and Mentally ill persons
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Upon Lady Granny in her (supposed) grandure [graphic].