| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 17 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'E. C, aged 50, a poor widow who went into the country to make a little money by gathering hops, on her return found that her nephew had robbed her of her little all. She became deranged and conceives that King George the Third had resigned his throne to her — that she is Queen Betty — has seven millions of money — and that St. James's Park and Bethlem Hospital belong to her. She is very industrious — always at work ; she has no symptoms of palsy, and never requires personal restraint.' |