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Collection: Alexander Morison illustrations

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Captioned 'D B mania Bethlem'.

Similar to plate 13 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of an old woman, D. B., aged 72. Mania, not hereditary, of nine weeks duration; after an attack of inflammation, with…

Captioned 'Bethlem - D B monomania. grandeur etc genl [general] paralysis succeeding mania'.

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Similar to plate 14 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Initialled A J [Alexander Johnston].

'Portrait of D. B., No. 13, in a state of monomania; in this case the…

Uncaptioned but titled 'Raving Madness'.

Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Signed A Johnston. The drawing is of one of a pair of sculptures by Caius Gabriel Cibber made for the gate of Bethlem Hospital and now in the Victoria and Albert Museum.