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DGH1 - Records of Crichton Royal Hospital
- 7 - Recreation and Occupation
  - 3 - Art
    - 1 - Art in Madness - Early Patient Artwork

Ref No	DGH1/7/3/1/127
Title	Unidentified patient from Cheadle Royal Hospital, Manchester - View of Crichton Royal Institution and Sketch of a Ruined Castle
Description	Two pictures, one on either side: View of Crichton Royal Institution Medium: Watercolour Size: 20.7 x 28.4 Inscription reads, ' ''I know that you are always interested in the production of any patient and I beg to enclose for the use of some of your wards a sketch made by one of my gentleman of your Institution taken from a woodcut in a Number of the Saturday Magazine.'' Extract letter Dr Dickson: Cheadle, Chesire, 1 June 1854', 'Crichton Lunatic Asylum'. Copy of a woodcut print which appeared in The Saturday Magazine in 1839 at the opening of Crichton Royal Institution. On the reverse: Sketch of a Ruined Castle Medium: Watercolour Size: 20.7 x 28.4
Date	1854
Related Material	The Saturday Magazine, No. 452, Vol. XV, DGH1/3/2; Further sketches of the same image, DGH1/7/3/1/109 and DGH1/7/3/1/120.
Format	Painting

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