The Infirmary, Dispensary and Lunatic Hospital, Manchester.

Summary

View of the Manchester Infirmary with the Lunatic Asylum to the left. These are substatial buildings in the Georgian style, rectangular and imposing, with many windows. The infirmary is surmounted by a clock and a cupola with a weather vane. The view is across the infirmary pond, on which swim two swans. Beside this long pool passers by are meeting and talking. A hand-coloured copy of this engraving is also in the gallery's collection (1956.225).