print; satirical print

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Object Type: print; satirical print
Museum number: 2001,0520.6
Title: Object: A Visit to Bedlam
Description: Satire: three men and a woman looking in horror at inmates, their faces at cell windows; one inmate accusing visitor of being a cuckold. 7 August 1794 Hand-coloured etching
Producer name: Print made by: Richard Newton; After: Richard Newton; Published by: William Holland
School/style: British
Production date: 1794
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 345 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 247 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Alexander 1998 / Richard Newton and English caricature in the 1790s (134); BM Satires / Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: satire; hospital/asylum; mental illness
Associated places: Topographic representation of: London
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Kit Monkman
Funder name: With contribution from: British Museum Friends
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Kenneth Monkman
Acquisition date: 2001
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2001,0520.6
Conservation: Treatment: 22 Jan 2002

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