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A mentally ill patient with mask and hand restraints. Photograph after a wood engraving by E. Tritschler, 1908.

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

A madman designated as the poet Nathaniel Lee in Bethlem Hospital. Mezzotint by J. Watts, 1778.

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

David playing the harp before Saul. Etching by W. van der Leeuw after Rembrandt van Rijn, c. 1630.

Death looms above a group of people inflicted with various physical and mental diseases - a lazar house. Stipple engraving by M. Haughton, 1813, after H. Fuseli.

Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

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.

An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a grimacing patient; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity). Engraving.

An itinerant surgeon extracting stones from a man's head; symbolising the expulsion of 'folly' (insanity), they are surrounded by a group of people. Pencil drawing by P. Quast, 1645.

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

Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma / Stuart Sutherland.

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.

The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving after E.C. Wauters.

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

Seven vignettes of people suffering from different types of mental illness. Lithograph by W. Spread and J. Reed, 1858.

Breakdown : a personal crisis and a medical dilemma / Stuart Sutherland.

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.

The painter Hugo van der Goes with onlookers and a group of choir boys singing. Wood engraving after E.C. Wauters.