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… seen from the north, with people walking in the foreground’, Wellcome Collection Gallery, 25642i, about 1750. Image William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress series, "In The Madhouse" (c. 1732-1735). Abstract For much of the eighteenth century, … the fragility of human sanity. This was something played upon and contributed to by satirists such as Alexander Pope and William Hogarth, certainly, but also, if Ward is reporting anything based on fact, by inmates themselves. The Spy and his …
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