In Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)
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Title
In Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)
Subject
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Mental illness
Psychiatric hospitals
Etchings (prints)
Caricatures
Satires (document genre)
Description
Published as the last of a series of eight engravings entitled, A Rake's Progress, this print depicts the story of Tom Rakewell, a wealthy youth who squanders his inheritance because of immorality, carelessness and greed. As he descends into madness, the manacled Rakewell is lead to confinement in an asylum for the destitute and insane.
Abstract
Etching of an aslyum, by William Hogarth
Creator
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764
Publisher
Published for the Artist
Date Created
1735
Rights
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Access Rights
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Is Part Of
Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. MMC 064 (10:08)
Format
image
Extent
1 etching
Medium
etching (printing process) on paper
Language
English
Identifier
DigID0002800
Provenance
From the Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. Gift of the Maine Medical Center to the Harvard Medical School, 1992
Files
Citation
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, “In Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam),” OnView, accessed April 24, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/12987.