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Engraving: 'Bethlehem Hospital' by R. White
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Engraving: 'Bethlehem Hospital' by R. White

Robert White

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Lettering: Hospitium mente-captorum londinense. ... R. White sculpsit. In cartouche on left: "Frontispicium hospitii (vulgo Bedlam dicti) mente captis destinati ... A.D. MDCLXXXV mense Aprili fundati anno sequente mense Juli consummati." In cartouche on right: "A prospect of the hospitall called Bedlam for the releife and cure of persons distracted ... begun Aprill 1675 and finished in July 1676"

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