| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 41 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Unsigned [François Rochard].
'S. M, aged 21, unmarried. This young woman made her livelihood by sewing; she was the child of parents who separated when she was six years old – on account of his separation she was frequently exposed to distressing situations; her insanity has existed three months, she says that “this is a troublesome world, and that she would rather die than live any longer in it;” she has a fixed purpose of destroying herself; and in one week, a short time before her portrait was taken, she had made three attempts, to poison, to drown, and to hang herself.' |