File:Melancholia and Mania by Caius Gabriel Cibber c. 1676. Engraving by C. Warren n.d..JPG

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English: Engraving by C. Warren first appearing in Hughson's London of two figures carved by Gabriel Caius Cibber c. 1676. The figures respresented melancholy (on the left) and raving madness or mania (on the right). They adorned the entrance portal to the new Bethlem Royal Hospital (Bedlam) which opened at a site in Moorfields, north London in 1676.
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Source John Thomas Smith, Nollekens and his times, and memoirs of contemporary artists from the time of Roubillac, Hogarth and Reynolds to that of Fuseli, Flaxman and Blake, Volume 1, 2nd Edition, London, Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1829
Author Engraved by C. Warren for Hughson's London

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