EditorialFrenzy Frenzy The frenzy, The insane sits naked on a stump-like, thatched elevation on a square plinth. She has the bent left leg forwards with the foot briefly over the plinth, the right is placed diagonally backwards. She pulls her hair with both han...
EditorialTwo Madmen Two insane Orlando furioso, Both are naked, one sitting frontally with legs spread on a raised surface, of the other, which lies, only the upper body appears behind the elevation. The former sits with the upper body slightly to the left on a...
EditorialCount William V is insane and kills Gerrit van Wateringen, 1357. Draughtsman: Johann Wilhelm Kaiser (I). Dating: 1843. Measurements: h 166 mm ? w 124 mm.
EditorialPlate - "Insane Hospital, Boston". Dated: c. 1936. Dimensions: overall: 20.3 x 25.4 cm (8 x 10 in.) Original IAD Object: 7 1/4" in diameter. Medium: black and white photograph.
EditorialElizabeth Tappenden, 1876, Albumen silver print from glass negative, 9.3 x 5.5 cm (3 11/16 x 2 3/16 in. ), Photographs, Unknown (British), A sobering foil to the cartes-de-visite of the celebrated and powerful, these records from an unidentified Britis...
EditorialThree legal devotees: mad linen weaver Andrew Nicol sued over a dunghill, insane Mary Walker and mad flax dresser John Skene. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.
EditorialThe skeleton of Death looks out from behind death's door, to see the crowd of obese, lame, crippled, old and insane people waiting for release from life's torments. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Thomas Rowlandson from The English Dance...
EditorialNORTH-WEST FRONT OF THE ASYLUM NEAR ARLSEY, BEDFORDSHIRE, FOR THE INSANE POOR OF HERTFORDSHIRE, BEDFORDSHIRE, AND HUNTINGDONSHIRE, 1860 engraving.
EditorialOphelia 1851-2 Shakespeare's character Ophelia, driven insane by the murder of her father by her lover Hamlet, is portrayed singing in her madness as she drowns. Canvas; 762 x 1118 mm N01506.