A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum sub-Natural History being two portraits in the

being two portraits in the style of Frans Hals

and the frame is in good condition

Widths: 53

’ survives from an English shop front during the late nineteenth century

The eighteenth century black japanned thick pine carcass kneehole desk of diminutive size

A Rare Steel Key for The Women's Wing of The Cumberland and Westmorland Lunatic Asylum sub-Natural History being two portraits in theOrigin: EnglishPeriod: Late VictorianProvenance: UnknownDate: c. 1890 1910Length: 3. 5Width: 1. 25The weighty single steel key with turned barrel for Garlands Asylum at Carlisle, bearing the manufacturer's name of Gibbons of Wolverhampton and stamped "FEMALE, surviving from the late Victorian period. The key remains in original condition with no damages. The construction of asylums was widespread in Britain following The Lunacy Act of 1845, which