| Description Of Item | Illustration from the collection of Alexander Morison. Plate 60 of Morison’s 'The Physiognomy of Mental Diseases' (1840). Signed A J [Alexander Johnston].
'Portrait of J. H. aged 50.
This person has been in confinement above twenty years — he was tried for this offence, and acquitted on the ground of insanity; his unnatural propensity still continues; he is sometimes noisy and tears his clothes.' |