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Despair
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Rights: © Fondation Georges Rouault / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
Department of Prints
J. S. Thacher sold; to Fogg Art Museum 1944.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum George R. Nutter Fund
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An insane man (Tom Rakewell) sits on the floor manically grasping at his head, his lover (Sarah Young) cries at the spectacle whilst two attendants attach chains to his legs; they are surrounded by other lunatics at Bethlem hospital, London. Engraving by
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