Mental Illness Collection

Bomb wrecked houses, Yarmouth, 1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Bomb wrecked houses, Yarmouth, 1915. Homes in Great Yarmouth, England which were damaged by bombs dropped by the German Zeppelin L3 on January 19, 1915 during World War I.

"Self-contempt", late 19th century. Creator: Mihaly Munkacsy. "Self-contempt", late 19th century
"Self-contempt", late 19th century

AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Main character from the tragedy of "King Lear" by William Shakespeare. Lear divides his power and land between two of his daughters

AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Main character from the tragedy of "King Lear" by William Shakespeare. Lear divides his power and land between two of his daughters

AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Main character from the tragedy of "King Lear" by William Shakespeare. Lear divides his power and land between two of his daughters

Life in the trenches in Champagne; A torpedo explodes at some distance... 1917. Creator: Unknown
Life in the trenches in Champagne; A torpedo explodes at some distance, shaking the parapets, mowing down everything around with its splinters, 1917

AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Creator: Heritage Images
AI IMAGE - King Lear, 2023. Main character from the tragedy of "King Lear" by William Shakespeare. Lear divides his power and land between two of his daughters

The Osaka Youth Who Regained His Speech after His Father's Death, 1875. Creator: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
The Osaka Youth Who Regained His Speech after His Father's Death, 1875. From The Postal News, no. 651

North-west front of the Asylum near Arlsey, Bedfordshire, for the insane poor of Hertford... 1860. Creator: Unknown
North-west front of the Asylum near Arlsey, Bedfordshire, for the insane poor of Hertfordshire, Bedforshire and Huntingdoneshire, 1860

Men on the street, 1920-1930. Creator: Patrick Kroon
Men on the street, 1920-1930. Two gloomy men in top hats on the street in conversation with a priest. Sketch for a political cartoon

Minister and a priest, 1920-1930. Creator: Patrick Kroon
Minister and a priest, 1920-1930. A smiling politician and a gloomy priest. Sketch for a political cartoon

View of Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, 1747. Creator: Thomas Bowles
View of Bethlem Royal Hospital in London, 1747. L'Hospital de Fou, (mad hospital). Founded in 1247, Bethlem, or Bedlam

Asylum for the Temporary Reception of Insane Soldiers, at Fort Pitt, Chatham, 1857. Creator: Unknown
Asylum for the Temporary Reception of Insane Soldiers, at Fort Pitt, Chatham, 1857. Patients labouring under insanity...are temporarily received, and, after a short but strict observation

Insane Asylum, Columbus, O[hio], between 1900 and 1906. Creator: Unknown
Insane Asylum, Columbus, O[hio], between 1900 and 1906

Le roi Lear et son fou pendant la tempête, 1836. Creator: Louis Candide Boulanger
Le roi Lear et son fou pendant la tempete, 1836. King Lear and his fool during the storm. King Lear, scene 2 of act III, the king sinks into madness. The rocky landscape echoes his torment

The Maniac, 1880. Creator: Fitz Hugh Lane
The Maniac, 1880

Niam Niam lunatic, Mongalla to Terrakekka, Sudan, 1925 (1927). Artist: Thomas A Glover
Niam Niam lunatic, Mongalla to Terrakekka, Sudan, 1925 (1927). A print from Cape to Cairo, by Stella Court Treatt, George G Harrap & Company Ltd, 1927

Treatment of the Insane, 1733, (1925). Creator: William Hogarth
Treatment of the Insane, 1733, (1925). " Bedlam" Bedlam from A Rakes Progress 1733 - engraving by William Hogarth (1697-1764)

A Rakes Progress - 8: The Mad House, 1733. Artist: William Hogarth
A Rakes Progress - 8: The Mad House, 1733. True to his nature Tom Rakewell has run through a vast fortune through indulgence in all the luxuries of modern living

Dr. Charles Henry Nichols, 1865-1880. Creator: Unknown
Dr. Charles Henry Nichols, 1865-1880. Nichols, Dr. (Charles Henry), famous brain specialist, between 1865 and 1880. Acting assist. Surgeon during Civil War. Conducted a general hospital for U.S

Charles W. Jones of Florida, 1865-1880. Creator: Unknown
Charles W. Jones of Florida, 1865-1880. Jones, Hon. Charles W. Senator of Florida, between 1865 and 1880. [Politician: became mentally ill, reportedly reduced to common vagrancy

Salamon de Caus at Bicetre, 1640-76. Creator: Jacques Courtois
Salamon de Caus at Bicetre, 1640-76

Senator Charles William Jones of Florida, 1865-1880. Creator: Unknown
Senator Charles William Jones of Florida, 1865-1880. Jones, Senator Hon. Charles Wm. of Florida, between 1865 and 1880. [Became mentally ill, reportedly reduced to common vagrancy

Bust from the Adams Memorial, Modeled 1892-93, cast 1912. Creator: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Bust from the Adams Memorial, Modeled 1892-93, cast 1912

Melancholia, c. 1615. Creator: Domenico Fetti
Melancholia, c. 1615

The Mad Woman of Yawata (Yawata no kyojo) from kuchie (frontispiece) of a novel, ca. 1905

Dance in a Madhouse, 1917. Creator: George Wesley Bellows
Dance in a Madhouse, 1917

The Shepherd, 1828. Creator: Welby Sherman
The Shepherd, 1828

Ophelia: "Theres fennel for you, and columbines"(Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4
Ophelia: " Theres fennel for you, and columbines" (Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5), 1787

Christ Healing the Possessed, from Das Plenarium, 1517. Creator
Christ Healing the Possessed, from Das Plenarium, 1517

The Fool Who Sells Wisdom, ca. 1818. Creator: Godefroy Engelmann
The Fool Who Sells Wisdom, ca. 1818. [Le fou qui vend la sagesse]

The Melancholic Man, ca. 1800. Creator: Ignace Joseph de Claussin
The Melancholic Man, ca. 1800

Augusta Walker, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Augusta Walker, 1876

Catherine Holborn, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Catherine Holborn, 1876

Elizabeth Tappenden, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Elizabeth Tappenden, 1876

Caroline Nightingale, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Caroline Nightingale, 1875

Ann Chittenden, 1875. Creator: Unknown
Ann Chittenden, 1875

Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1850-55. Creator: Hugh Welch Diamond
Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1850-55

Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1850-58. Creator: Hugh Welch Diamond
Patient, Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, 1850-58

Tasso, (1544-1595), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Tasso, (1544-1595), 1830. Torquato Tasso (1544-1595) Italian poet best known for Jerusalem Delivered describing the Siege of Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade

Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, February 1889, (1947). Creator: Vincent van Gogh
Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe, February 1889, (1947). Van Gogh (1853-1890) had cut off his ear with a razor during one of his periods of mental illness. Painting in a private collection

The assassination of President Paul Doumer, 1932. Creator: Unknown
The assassination of President Paul Doumer, 1932. Reconstitution de l abominable attentat perpetre le 6 Mai 1932 contre M. le President Paul Doumer

Joanna Southcott, An Extraordinary Fanatic, 1822. Creator: Robert Cooper
Joanna Southcott, An Extraordinary Fanatic, 1822. Portrait of Joanna Southcott (c1750-1814) English mystic and religious fanatic

Nathaniel Bentley. The well known Dirty Dick, 1821. Creator: R Page
Nathaniel Bentley. The well known Dirty Dick, 1821. Portrait of Nathaniel Bentley (c1735-1809) who had a hardware shop and warehouse on Leadenhall Street in the City of London

View of the new Bethlem Hospital, St Georges Field, Southwark, London, 1814. Artist
View of the new Bethlem Hospital, St Georges Field, Southwark, London, 1814. The hospital was moved to this site c1815, after the old building was found to be unsound

View of the new Bethlem Hospital, Southwark, London, c1825. The hospital was moved to this site c1815, after the old building was found to be unsound

South-west view of Old Bethlehem Hospital, Moorfields and London Wall, City of London, 1814

Sculptures outside the entrance to Old Bethlehem Hospital, Moorfields, City of London, 1783. View of the figure sculptures from the pediment of the gate to Old Bethlehem Hospital

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