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The Hospital of Bethelem

L'Hospital de Fou

SKU: 12451 Type:

BOWLES, Thomas after MAURER, John
London,
Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69 St Paul's Church Yard, and Rob. Wilkinson, 58 Cornhill,
[1747].
Engraved print.
12451

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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. ...

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BM 1880,1113.5364.

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