The Hospital of Bethlem [Bedlam] at Moorfields, London: seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground. Engraving.

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This is the second building of Bethlem Hospital [Bedlam], built in 1675-1676 in Moorfields, London. In 1814-1815 the hospital removed to St. George's Fields, Southwark, and the Moorfields building was subsequently demolished

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1 print : engraving, with tone ; image 12.3 x 18.9 cm

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The Hospitall of Bethlehem The lettering is in an elaborate swallow-tailed and tasselled banderole in the sky

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B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 77/2 [p. 182]

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Wellcome Collection 25624i

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