Sujet

Friern Hospital, London: a woman suffering from mania, with forearm, hand and finger..., 1890/1910. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

Friern Hospital, London: a woman suffering from mania, with forearm, hand and finger movements, 1890/1910. Friern Hospital, previously known as Colney Hatch Asylum, a psychiatric hospital, opened in Barnet, North London in July 1851. Initially it held 1,250 patients, but by the time it was renamed as Friern Hospital in 1937, it had been enlarged and held 2,700. The hospital closed c. 1995.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM25A34_382

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53,3Mo (7,1Mo) / 31,8cm x 42,0cm / 3753 x 4960 (300dpi)

Mots clés

London England female women woman people hand hands medical health hospital medicine finger fingers historical body bodies science patient scene photography depiction century vintage gesturing photograph charity concept photo United Kingdom B&W psychiatry hand gesture asylum 19th century black & white black and white B W 1890s 1910 1910s 20th century nineteenth century psychiatric hospital history historic Barnet charitable institution TGN the body mania photograph Unknown 1890 madhouse Heritage Art gelatin silver print 19th-century research centre press photography Wellcome Collection Wellcome Research Institute Wellcome Trust Colney Hatch Asylum Friern Hospital