- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- William Hogarth
- Provenance
- Presented by Frank Manasek in 2001.
- Primary inscriptions
- See narratives
- Physical material
- Paper
- Object type
- Dimensions
- Height: 413mm Width: 540mm
- Inventory No
- 28582
- Accession Number
- 2001-4/1
Description
Formerly a plate in a book, this print shows the interior of a lunatic asylum, including the portrayal of an individual considering the problem of longitude with the aid of a drawing of a globe with poles marked.
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