The Lock Hospital and chapel: view of the street facade, and a detail of the chapel interior. Coloured engraving by W. Wise after R. Schnebbelie, 1815.

  • Schnebbelie, Robert Blemmel, -approximately 1849.
Date:
1 December 1815
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35131i
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The heraldic device of St Bartholomew's Hospital can be seen above the doorway of the Lock Hospital in this print

Publication/Creation

London (No. 58 Cornhill) : Robert Wilkinson, 1 December 1815.

Physical description

1 print : engraving, with watercolour ; images 16.7 x 28.9 and 6.3 x 11.3 cm

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Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/51/72
Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/51/71

Lettering

West view of the Lock Hospital and its Chapel, Kingsland. ; Interior of the chapel. ; Schnebbelie del. ; Wise sculp.

References note

B. Adams, London illustrated, London, 1983, number 131/68 [p.314]
J. Bettley, Pòst voluptatem misericordia: the rise and fall of the London Lock Hospitals', London Journal, X, 1984, pp. 167-175, plate III

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Wellcome Collection 35131i

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