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Bedlam
The Hospital of Bethelem
L'Hospital de Fou
London,
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, and Rob. Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill,
[1747].
Engraved print.
12451
A perspective print of Bethelem Hospital, known colloquially as Bedlam, a famous mental asylum.
The British Museum has two copies, the present example and another with a date of 1747 in the imprint. Their undated copy is also given a date of 1747, but as a slightly later state.
The British Museum has two copies, the present example and another with a date of 1747 in the imprint. Their undated copy is also given a date of 1747, but as a slightly later state.
BM 1880,1113.5364.
