Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
William Norris. An insane American rivetted alive in iron, etc.
Call Number
E North 29/GC022/George/Prints/Oversize/Titles T-Z
Identifier
ark:/88435/5q47rz25d
Publisher
London : [s.n.], 1815/07/--.
Language
No linguistic content
Date Created
1815
Extent
1 item ; sheet 16.5 x 25.5 cm.
Source Acquisition
Gift of Richard W. Meirs, Princeton University Class of 1888.
References
Cohn 1794
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
Medium: Etchings, aquatints
Depiction: Portrait of James Norris in his cell at Bedlam.
Item description: An etching with aquatint, upper centerloured. India paper impressions and plain were issued. Both of great rarity. No copy of either in the Douglas collection.
Signed: "Sketch from the Life in Bethlem, 7th June 1814, by G. Arnold, Esq., A.R.A. Etched by G. Cruikshank from the Original Drawing Exhibited to the Select Committee of the House of Commons on Madhouses, 1815. July 1815".
Commissioned by William Hone for presentation to the Committee on Madhouses, from a drawing Arnald made at the asylum in 1814.

Discovery Information

Subject
Norris, James, 17uu-1814—Portraits
Prisons—England—London—In art
Portraits, American—19th century
Mentally ill—United States—19th century—Portraits
Prisoners—England—London—19th century—Portraits
Portraits

Physical Characteristics

File Count
1

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
Holding location
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IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/025efa65-0a1a-4b8b-90ae-0558a9292695/manifest