Friday, October 9, 2009

Raving Madness










1. Richard Dadd, Sketch to illustrate the Passions: Agony-Raving Madness, watercolor, 1854 2. Statues of ‘Raving’ and ‘Melancholy’ Madness crowning the Bethlem Hospital gateposts at Moorfields. Engraving by Charles Turner Warren, 1808. Wellcome Library, London


Statues of ‘Raving’ and ‘Melancholy’ Madness crowning the Bethlem Hospital gateposts at Moorfields. Engraving by Charles Turner Warren, 1808. Wellcome Library, London

reading Flora Tristan's London Journal, 1840... она утверждает, что эти статуи стояли при входе и были прикрыты, поскольку посетители не выдерживали.

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