Dining hall, Asylum [graphic]

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Title: Dining hall, Asylum [graphic]
Creator: Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker, artist
Contributor: Pugin, Augustus, 1762-1832, printmaker, artist.
Hill, John, 1770-1850, printmaker.
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764-1834, publisher.
Clements C. Fry Collection of Medical Prints and Drawings (Medical Historical Library, Yale University).
Published / Created: [1 February 1808]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Feb. 1, 1808, at R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, 101 Strand
Abstract: "View within the dining hall of the asylum in Lambeth; girls dressed in simple purple dresses with white bonnets seated at long narrow tables along sides of plain large room, with flagstones and grey walls; a few more elegantly dressed figures strolling between the tables."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Microcosm of London. London : R. Ackermann's Repository of Arts, No. 101 Strand, [1808-1810?], v. 1, opposite page 25.
Plate numbered in upper right, above image: Plate 5.
Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Asylum, or House of Refuge.
1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; plate mark 242 x 292 mm.
Provenance: Clements C. Fry.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 24.4 x 30 cm, on sheet 27.2 x 33.9 cm
Language: English

Repository: Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Call Number: Print00562
Collection Title: V. 1 Microcosm of London.
Collection Date: [London] : R. Ackermann's repository of arts, no. 101 Strand, [1808-10]

Genre: Pictorial works
Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1808
Etchings England London 1808
Material: aquatint and etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Lambeth (London, England)
London (England)
Great Britain.
England
London.
Subject (Topic): Hospitals
Asylums
Orphanages
Interiors
Dining rooms
Eating & drinking
Fireplaces
Subjects: Lambeth (London, England) > Pictorial works
London (England) > Pictorial works
Hospitals > Great Britain
Asylums
Orphanages
Asylums > England > London
Interiors
Dining rooms
Eating & drinking
Fireplaces
England > London > 1808

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