€750
WELSH SCHOOL C. 1880 Denbigh Asylum, North Wales Straw and watercolour, 46 x 59cm Inscribed The Denbigh Asylum, also known as the North Wales Hospital was designed by Architect Thomas Fulljames FRIBA (1808-1874) and the building was completed in 1848. Its history as a treatment centre for patients with psychiatric illnesses has been divisive at best, given that its foundation was heralded by the passing of the 1845 Lunacy Act only three years previously. Therefore, treatments were rarely standardised and often archaic in nature. The hospital did later encourage its patients to partake in recreational activities such as sports, concerts and crafts, of which straw art was likely included. This skill was popularised in the 1880s in Wales and is generally used to depict architectural monuments such as bridges, institutions and so on as the rigidity of the straw lends itself well to these man-named forms.
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