178 x 305 mm. Purchase: Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers 1931
Trial proof for the fourth and final state which was printed in an edition of 50 - see the catalogue entry 34 in 'Joseph Webb, prints and working drawings', Gascoigne & Furst, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1989. This etching was a companion piece to 'Prison' (PR736)
Imaginative landscape with an asylum; foreground, on the left, two thick trunked trees, two smaller trees and three figures leaning on an overgrown stone wall containing two square shapes (shutters?), on the right, a bush on the banks of a river gorge and three figures, a man with two sticks and a woman with a child, walking on a track across rocks; middleground, a two arched partly derelict bridge over a steep, stepped waterfall; background, on the right, trees and a medieval barn-like building, on the left, a large, monolithic asylum with a ruinous roof, cracks in walls, slit and barred windows and steps leading to a doorway; sky, radiating light. Etched in fine detail with varied line including cross hatching and stipple
