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mental illness

Also known as: mental illness; madness; lunatic; mad; mental health; depression
Broader terms: mental state; medicine/health

94 related objects

badge

Museum number: 2005,0323.5 |
Production date: 2005 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

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Museum number: 2005,0323.7 |
Production date: 2005 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

badge

Museum number: 2005,0323.6 |
Production date: 2005 |
Production place: Made in:British Isles

badge

Museum number: 2012,4102.5

drawing

Museum number: 1980,0628.56 |
Producer name: BIOG29482 Drawn by:Francisco de Goya |
Production date: 1825-1828

drawing

Museum number: 1946,0713.1475 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Drawn by:Anonymous |
Production date: 16thC

drawing; print study

Museum number: 1970,0919.84 |
Producer name: BIOG39888 Drawn by:Paul Nash |
Production date: 1927

illustrated book; print

Museum number: 1871,0812.2343-2345 |
Producer name: After:Henry FuseliPrint made by:William Bromley |
Production date: 1806 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: A Crétin of Aosta |
Museum number: 1912,1217.33 |
Producer name: Print made by:Edward J WhymperPrint made by:Josiah Wood Whymper |
Production date: 1860-1871

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1882,0411.1353 |
Producer name: BIOG130037 Print made by:William Johnstone White |
Production date: 1818-1819

print

Title: Unstable woman |
Museum number: 1989,0617.36 |
Producer name: BIOG10521 Print made by:Stanley William Hayter |
Production date: 1947

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1865,1111.2847 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The house of woe Illustrations to the castle of indolence |
Museum number: 1873,1213.680 |
Producer name: After:William RimerPrint made by:Ferdinand Joubert |
Production date: 1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Mad Kate |
Museum number: 1849,0512.233 |
Producer name: After:Henry FuseliPrint made by:William Bromley |
Production date: 1807 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: William Norris - an insane American |
Museum number: 1863,0214.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankAfter:George Arnald |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book

Title: Une Grande Douleur |
Museum number: 1870,0514.966 |
Producer name: Print made by:Théodule RibotPublished by:Alphonse Lemerre |
Production date: 1868 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book

Title: Spleen La moderna Xilografia Italia: Raccolta di tavole X |
Museum number: 1931,0713.55 |
Producer name: BIOG61336 Print made by:Rezio Buscaroli |
Production date: 1920s(late)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: Cc,1.237 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1726 1756-1764

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1868,0822.1638 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1726

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1859,0316.990 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Henry Colburn |
Production date: 1844 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1859,0316.899 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Bottle |
Museum number: 1978,U.314.8 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 After:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1847 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.1509 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; catalogue

Title: Man of Peace Hydrogen Man |
Museum number: 1983,U.2489.1-10 |
Producer name: BIOG18623 Print made by:Leonard Baskin |
Production date: 1952-1960

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1977,U.1446 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Whittingham & Wilkins |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: "Kate is Craz'd" Specimens of Art |
Museum number: 2010,7081.6966 |
Producer name: Print made by:John RogersAfter:Thomas Stothard |
Production date: 1830s |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Uytslag der Wind Negotie Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9628 |
Production date: 1720

print; satirical print

Title: The radical's arms. |
Museum number: 1868,0808.8470 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:George Humphrey |
Production date: 1819 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: Harlequin Methodist |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4351 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1763

print

Title: "Blow Winds" |
Museum number: 1952,1201.8 |
Producer name: BIOG47734 Print made by:Edmund Joseph Sullivan |
Production date: 1884-1933

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1891,0326.17 |
Producer name: Block cut by:John JacksonAfter:William Harvey |
Production date: 1831

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1900,0613.420 |
Producer name: BIOG40022 Block cut by:Charlton Nesbitt |
Production date: 1790-1838

print

Title: Follia Misteri |
Museum number: 2000,0326.3 |
Producer name: BIOG37460 Print made by:Alberto Martini |
Production date: 1914

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Le chant d'Ophélie (Act.IV, Sc.V) Hamlet |
Museum number: 1911,0412.176 |
Producer name: Print made by:Eugène DelacroixPrinted by:Bertauts |
Production date: 1834 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1992,1107.9-28 |
Producer name: BIOG44575 Print made by:Jean Rustin |
Production date: 1943-1992

print

Title: The Psychopathic Family |
Museum number: 2001,1125.3.1-12 |
Producer name: BIOG41174 Print made by:Mike Parr |
Production date: 1995

print

Title: E. Tietze |
Museum number: 1949,0411.3855 |
Producer name: BIOG26277 Print made by:Georg Ehrlich |
Production date: 1902-1949

print

Title: Irrenhaus Gesichter |
Museum number: 1982,0724.27.3 |
Producer name: BIOG18936 Print made by:Max Beckmann |
Production date: 1918

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: La folie de Hugues van der Goes |
Museum number: 1877,0210.451 |
Producer name: After:Émile Charles WautersPrint made by:Louis Monziès |
Production date: 1875

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1863,0613.780 |
Producer name: BIOG22771 Print made by:Daniel Chodowiecki |
Production date: 1780 |
Production place: Published in:Leipzig

print

Title: Nächtliche Begegnung mit einem Irrsinnigen Der Krieg |
Museum number: 1982,0724.28.22 |
Producer name: BIOG25351 Print made by:Otto Dix |
Production date: 1924

print

Title: Toqués, Toqués Les Toquades |
Museum number: 2003,0430.7.2 |
Producer name: Print made by:Paul GavarniPrinted by:Lemercier & Cie |
Production date: 1858 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Title: William Norris - an insane American |
Museum number: 1850,0810.101 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankAfter:George Arnald |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Norris the Lunatic |
Museum number: 1871,0429.737 |
Producer name: BIOG63250 Print made by:George Cruikshank |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Anna Quarl |
Museum number: 1851,0308.733 |
Producer name: Print made by:J NixonAfter:J Nixon |
Production date: 1793 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Capt: Davis of Margate |
Museum number: 1851,0308.213 |
Producer name: Print made by:John NixonAfter:John Nixon |
Production date: 1775-1790 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Museum number: 1870,0625.607 |
Producer name: Print made by:William DickinsonAfter:Robert Edge Pine |
Production date: 1775 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; broadside

Title: Den Cardinaal van Furstenberg, ontwaakt uyt den Droom... |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3281 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1674

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: De Verslagen Actionist in de Stoel met Rinkels, ov Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid |
Museum number: 1868,0808.9639 |
Production date: 1720

print; satirical print

Title: The Bubbler's-Kingdom in the Aireal-World |
Museum number: 1868,0808.3480 |
Producer name: Print made by:John PinePublished by:Thomas Bowles II |
Production date: 1720 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: The Present State of Europe; A Political Farce of Four Acts, as it is now in Rehearsal, by all the P |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4268 |
Producer name: After:Jefferyes Hamett O'NealePublished by:William Hennell |
Production date: 1762 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Folles de la Salpétrière, (Cour des agitées.) Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes |
Museum number: 1880,0710.181 |
Producer name: Print made by:Amand GautierPrinted by:Bertauts |
Production date: 1857 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Title: Die Irrsinnige von St. Marie-à-Py Der Krieg |
Museum number: 1982,0724.28.35 |
Producer name: BIOG25351 Print made by:Otto Dix |
Production date: 1924

print

Title: Psychopathic ward |
Museum number: 1979,0512.13 |
Producer name: BIOG43699 Print made by:Robert Riggs |
Production date: 1940

print; book-illustration; frontispiece

Museum number: 1859,0316.1018 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Charles Tilt |
Production date: 1842 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Nebuchadnezzar recovering his Reason |
Museum number: 1865,0520.858 |
Producer name: Print made by:Robert BlythAfter:John Hamilton Mortimer |
Production date: 1781 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Solomon Eagle |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2266 |
Producer name: After:George CruikshankPrint made by:Samuel Davenport |
Production date: 1835 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: The Bottle |
Museum number: 1978,U.326.8 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:David Bogue |
Production date: 1847 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: Scott's Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft |
Museum number: 1978,U.1646.(11) |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:John Murray |
Production date: 1830 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1859,0316.244 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Foolish Sam |
Museum number: 1850,0810.208 |
Producer name: Print made by:Balthazar NebotAfter:Balthazar Nebot |
Production date: 1750-1765

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Foolish Sam |
Museum number: 1873,0510.1038 |
Producer name: Print made by:I SharpAfter:Balthazar Nebot |
Production date: 1790-1800

print

Title: Foolish Sam |
Museum number: 1851,0308.615 |
Producer name: Print made by:Balthazar NebotAfter:Balthazar Nebot |
Production date: 1750-1765

print; broadside; satirical print

Title: P[itt] and Proteus, or a Political Flight to the M Quem Deus Vult Perdere, Prius Dementat |
Museum number: 1868,0808.4382 |
Producer name: BIOG64572 Print made by:Anonymous |
Production date: 1767

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1902,0228.34 |
Producer name: BIOG75315 Print made by:John Moyr Smith |
Production date: 1889

print

Title: William Norris: / Confined in this Manner at Bethlem Hospital |
Museum number: 1850,0810.100 |
Producer name: Print made by:George ArnaldAfter:George Arnald |
Production date: 1815

print

Title: Unstable woman |
Museum number: 1988,0409.134 |
Producer name: BIOG10521 Print made by:Stanley William Hayter |
Production date: 1946-1947

print

Title: Madness |
Museum number: 1872,0810.110 |
Producer name: After:Robert Edge PinePrint made by:A Easto |
Production date: 1796-1844

print

Title: Unstable woman |
Museum number: 1988,0409.133 |
Producer name: BIOG10521 Print made by:Stanley William Hayter |
Production date: 1946-1947

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1874,0711.719 |
Producer name: Block cut by:Luke ClennellAfter:John Thurston |
Production date: 1796-1840

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1880,0110.117 |
Producer name: BIOG130037 Print made by:William Johnstone White |
Production date: 1818-1819

print; book-illustration

Title: King Lear |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5202 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard RhodesAfter:John Thurston |
Production date: 1815

print; newspaper/periodical

Museum number: 1871,1209.5764 |
Producer name: BIOG51200 Print made by:Thomas Williams |
Production date: 1843-1862

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0613.1000 |
Producer name: BIOG22771 Print made by:Daniel Chodowiecki |
Production date: 1783 |
Production place: Published in:Wandsbek

print

Title: La folle |
Museum number: 1949,0411.3072 |
Producer name: BIOG34473 Print made by:Jean Émile Laboureur |
Production date: 1929

print

Title: Dance in a madhouse |
Museum number: 1979,0623.1 |
Producer name: BIOG19126 Print made by:George Bellows |
Production date: 1917

print

Title: Paranoid interior |
Museum number: 1992,0725.64 |
Producer name: BIOG32339 Print made by:Carl Otto Hultén |
Production date: 1946

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.1423 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1838 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Title: King Lear |
Museum number: 1868,0822.5201 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard RhodesAfter:John Thurston |
Production date: 1815 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The madness of Don Quixote Thirty Illustrations to 'The History of Don Quixot |
Museum number: 1949,0411.1955 |
Producer name: Print made by:William StrangPublished by:Sir Frederick Orridge Macmillan |
Production date: 1902 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: Ophelia |
Museum number: 1872,1012.2450 |
Producer name: Print made by:Charles CousenAfter:Arthur Hughes |
Production date: 1865 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; music sheet/cover

Title: The Maniac. Musical Bouquet |
Museum number: 1922,0710.618 |
Producer name: Print made by:Alfred AshleyPublished by:William Strange |
Production date: 1830-1850 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: Folle |
Museum number: 1980,U.1327 |
Producer name: BIOG24482 Print made by:Louise Danse |
Production date: 1880-1940

print; newspaper/periodical

Title: La folie de Hugues van der Goes |
Museum number: 1877,0210.479 |
Producer name: Print made by:Louis MonzièsAfter:Émile Charles Wauters |
Production date: 1875

print

Title: Folle |
Museum number: 1980,U.1326 |
Producer name: BIOG24482 Print made by:Louise Danse |
Production date: 1880-1940

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1863,0613.1563-1574 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel ChodowieckiPublished by:Carl Wilhelm Ettinger |
Production date: 1791 |
Production place: Published in:Gotha

print; book

Title: Une Grande Douleur |
Museum number: 1870,0514.967 |
Producer name: Print made by:Théodule RibotPublished by:Alphonse Lemerre |
Production date: 1868 |
Production place: Published in:Paris (France)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: Cc,2.249 |
Producer name: BIOG31785 Print made by:William Hogarth |
Production date: 1726 1756-1764

print; book-illustration

Title: The Bottle |
Museum number: 1865,1111.2316 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Dalziel Brothers |
Production date: 1847 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print

Title: The house of woe Illustrations to the castle of indolence |
Museum number: 1873,1213.681 |
Producer name: After:William RimerPrint made by:Ferdinand Joubert |
Production date: 1845 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.1508 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1978,U.1510 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Richard Bentley |
Production date: 1839 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; book-illustration

Museum number: 1977,U.1447 |
Producer name: Print made by:George CruikshankPublished by:Whittingham & Wilkins |
Production date: 1866 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)

print; satirical print

Title: A Visit to Bedlam |
Museum number: 2001,0520.6 |
Producer name: Print made by:Richard NewtonAfter:Richard Newton |
Production date: 1794 |
Production place: Published in:London (England)