In Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)

In Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam)

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

Mental illness

Psychiatric hospitals

Etchings (prints)

Caricatures

Satires (document genre)

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.

Etching of an aslyum, by William Hogarth

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

Published for the Artist

1735

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Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. MMC 064 (10:08)

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1 etching

etching (printing process) on paper

English

DigID0002800

From the Manfred Kraemer Collection of Medical Prints and Satires. Gift of the Maine Medical Center to the Harvard Medical School, 1992