Stafford Asylum

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Date:1829 - 1831 (c.)

Description:Pen and wash drawing of Stafford Asylum. The County Asylum on Corporation Street opened in 1818, to accommodate 120 private and pauper patients.

The hospital moved to Seisdon near Wolverhampton in 1946 and the building became St. George's Hospital in the 1950s. The hospital closed in 1994.

Dimensions: width - 168mm, height - 103mm

Artist - F. Calvert (fl. 1827-1844)

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Donor ref:G94.023.0001 (83/15635)

Source: Staffordshire Museum Service - Art Collection

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