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William Hardcastle, a patient at West Riding Lunatic Asylum in Wakefield, Yorkshire. "Monomania of Pride."
1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 9 x 5.5 cm
Elizabeth Hardcastle, a patient at the West Riding Lunatic Asylum, Wakefield, Yorkshire. "General Paralysis of the Insane."
1 photograph : photoprint, albumen ; sheet 9 x 5.5 cm
The Blue Devils-!!
A despondent man is sitting before a fireplace, his feet on the grate, elbows on knees; he is tormented by demons proffering methods of suicide, appearing as bill collectors, and as a funeral procession. Paintings on the wall depict tragic scenes.
Three vignettes of phrenological heads and two phrenological propensities, amativeness and self love. Wood engraving by Dellagana after G. Cruikshank.
1 print : wood engraving ; border 23 x 14.8 cm
Le Tasse à l' Hôpital des Fous
Interior view of a confinement cell at the Asylum of St. Anna in Ferrara, Italy: the inmate, Torquato Tasso, is being mocked by visitors through a barred window.
Dr. Henri Guillard's Persuaders
A young black girl sitting on a rock