Lunacy posters & prints

The Madman Thomas Couture

Philippe Pinel releasing lunatics from their chains at the Salpetriere asylum in Paris in 1795, 1886 Tony Robert-Fleury

Philippe Pinel releasing lunatics from their chains at the Bicetre asylum in Paris in 1793, c.1840-50 Charles Louis Lucien Muller

Philippe Pinel releasing lunatics from their chains at the Bicetre asylum in Paris in 1793, c.1840-50 Charles Louis Lucien Muller

Philippe Pinel releasing lunatics from their chains at the Salpetriere asylum in Paris in 1795, 1886 Tony Robert-Fleury

New York State Lunatic Asylum at Utica American School

Blackwell Island Lunatic Asylum Anonymous

Asylum for Criminal Lunatics Broadmoor Sandhurst Berkshire UK 1867 Anonymous

The Late Dr. Conolly Resident Physician of Hanwell Lunatic Asylum 1866 Anonymous

Glasgow Lunatic Asylum, c.1830 Scottish School

The Asylum for Criminal Lunatics Broadmoor: The Terrace UK 1867 Anonymous

Kensington, London William Gauci

New York Lunatic Asylum, Blackwell's Island Anonymous

The City Lunatic Asylum Near Dartford UK 1866 Anonymous

Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum, Colney Hatch, Consecration of the Cemetery Anonymous

The Circle of Lunatics or Watt's Private Parties at His Heathfield Estate Anonymous

The Asylum for Criminal Lunatics Broadmoor: The Airing-Court UK 1867 Anonymous

The Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum: Male Dormitory UK 1867 Anonymous

Anatoly Lunacharsky, Soviet politician, c1917-c1929(?) Nikolay Kupreyanov

The Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum: Day-Room for Male Patients UK 1867 Anonymous

The Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum: Female Dormitory UK 1867 Anonymous

Illustration of Mad Women in the Street Anonymous

Malle Bobbe, the Witch of Haarlem Frans (after) Hals

Anatoly Lunacharsky, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, 1921 Anonymous

Tony, the child drunkard, c.1860 English School

Insane Girl Sitting in a Dungeon Anonymous

Mr. Lunardi's New Balloon, 29th June 1785 Julius Caesar Ibbetson

The Bicetre Asylum in Paris French School

Psyche, c.1906 Arthur Bowen Davies

Cupid Delivering Psyche, 1870 Edward Coley Burne-Jones

La voyante ou la somnambule (The Clairvoyant or The Sleepwalker), ca 1855 Anonymous

Mad Kate, 1806-07 Henry (1741-1825) Fuseli

Hypnosis, 1889 Unknown

Frenzy Artus Quellinus I

Vincenzo Lunardi, c1770 Unknown

Subjects hypnotised by the sound of a gong, 1891 Unknown