Visits to Bedlam
Bethlehem Hospital, better known as Bedlam, was a popular tourist attraction in the eighteenth century, as shown in these passages:
Part of
"A Digression on Madness"
from Jonathan Swift's
Tale of a Tub
;
Ned Ward's description of Bedlam in
The London Spy
;
Chapter twenty
of Henry Mackenzie's
Man of Feeling
;
Plate VI of Hogarth's
Rake's Progress
.