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Pintores e poetas de rilhafolles

Dantas, Júlio, 1876-1962, Sequeira, Gustavo de Matos, 1880- (bookplate) · 1900 · Lisboa : Guimarães, Libanio · 6 pictures

A study of art and writing produced by patients at the Rilhafolles asylum in Lisbon, by physician-writer Júlio Dantas, published by Guimarães, Libanio in 1900 for medical and literary readers. Halftone plates reproduce inmates' drawings and murals — a crowded supper scene, a robed saint between candlesticks, a profile portrait — alongside a printer's roundel of a hand press captioned IN HOC SIGNO VINCES.

Art and mental illness · Literature and mental illness

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