Desperate posters & prints

The Desperate Man, 1843-45 Gustave Courbet

The School of Sorrow, 1895 Luigi Rossi

The Desperate Man, ca. 1515 Albrecht Dürer

No choice?, c.1850 William James Grant

Study for 'Deserted - a Foundling' Frank Holl

Desperate Man Alphonse Legros

Desperation, c.1305 Giotto

On the brink of suicide French School

A Desperate Defence Anonymous

The Pawn Shop II, 1859 Carl-Hendrik d' Unker

The Desperate Man (Self-portrait) Gustave Courbet

The Gathering of Manna, c.1637-9 Nicolas Poussin

Unemployed workers desperate for work during the Great Depression Anonymous

Retreat from the Storm, c.1846 Jean-Francois Millet

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps Anonymous

A Desperate Woman, 1638 Jusepe de (1591-1652) Ribera

The Mont de Piete Ferdinand Heilbuth

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps, Germany, c1914-c1918 Unknown

Russian peasants, late 19th century Unknown

Sufferers from the Floods John Thomson

Allegory of the Rescue of Humanity-Virtus Deserta Giovanni Antonio da Brescia & Andrea Mantegna

The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) Gustave Courbet

Plate 55 from 'The Disasters of War': 'Th…, 1811-12 Francisco Goya

Townsfolk wait to scour the fields for potatoes left by farmers Anonymous

The Terra Nova icebound Herbert George Ponting

Thomas Chatterton receives a bowl of poison from Despair John Flaxman

Christ in the Wilderness, Served by Angels, ca 1608 Lodovico Carracci

On the March from Moscow, 1873 Laslett John Pott

Desperate Adolescent, or Narcissus, 1885-90 Auguste Rodin

Plate 26 from 'The Disasters of War': 'One…, 1810-20, published 1863 Francisco Goya

Plate 60 from 'The Disasters of War': 'Th…, 1811-12 Francisco Goya

Reflections of a Starving Man or Social Contrasts, 1894 Emilio Longoni

View of the outer trenches on the last day of the battle in front of Nashville, Tenn., Dec. 16, 1864,... Anonymous

Louis Le Gros Granting the First Parisians their First Charter Jean Paul Laurens

Plate 57 from 'The Disasters of War': 'Th…, 1811-12 Francisco Goya

Peter Rossi, Imprisoned by the Scaligeri, 1818-20 Francesco Hayez