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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth. Engraving by Eastgate.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Engraving after T. H. Shepherd.

Earl's Court House, London: the gardens with several women, walking, skipping, playing badminton, etc. Coloured lithograph by G. E. Madeley after himself.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north. Engraving, 1775.

Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Southgate, Middlesex: bird's eye view with detailed floor plan and key. Wood engraving by Laing after Daukes.

St. Luke's Hospital, Moorfields (top), Bethlem Hospital (middle), and St. Paul's School (bottom), London: the facade of each. Engraving by J. Peltro.

Mentally ill patients dancing at a ball at Somerset County Asylum. Process print after a lithograph by K. Drake, ca. 1850/1855.

Driffold Asylum, Sutton Coldfield, England: Driffold House, front view. Photograph, 1924.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London, with a map of Cripplegate Ward and the armorial device of John Blachford. Engraving by B. Cole, 1755.

James II and Louis XIV and their allies portrayed as inmates of a lunatic asylum. Etching by R. de Hooghe, 1688.

The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the entrance facade (above), and plans (below), with separate keys to male and female sides, and a scale of feet. Engraving by Roffe after P. Hardwick.

The fifty-fifth annual report of the officers of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Conn., April, 1879.

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.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

Journals and reminiscences of James Douglas, M.D. / edited by his son.

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The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam], St. George's Fields, Lambeth: the entrance facade (above), and plans (below), with separate keys to male and female sides, and a scale of feet. Engraving by Roffe after P. Hardwick.

The fifty-fifth annual report of the officers of the Retreat for the Insane at Hartford, Conn., April, 1879.

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.

St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the facade from the east. Coloured aquatint after T. H. Shepherd, 1815.

Journals and reminiscences of James Douglas, M.D. / edited by his son.