Desperation posters & prints

Desperation, c.1305 Giotto

A Desperate Defence Anonymous

Desperate Man Alphonse Legros

The Desperate Man, ca. 1515 Albrecht Dürer

The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) Gustave Courbet

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

Unemployed workers desperate for work during the Great Depression Anonymous

The Desperate Man, 1843-45 Gustave Courbet

The Desperate Man (Self-portrait) Gustave Courbet

Desperate Adolescent, or Narcissus, 1885-90 Auguste Rodin

Eva listened aghast, then, sank against the wall sobbing desperately.... Cyrus Cuneo

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

The Civil War in America: The Fight at Ball's Bluff Upper Potomac Anonymous

The Drunkard's Children George Cruikshank

'Monte Vulture, from near Rionero' Alphonse Bernoud Grellier

Gordon in China 1863 Anonymous

Spurs v Nottingham Forest FA Cup Semi 1967 Ernest Chapman

Edge of the Woods Near LHermitage, Pontoise, 1879 Camille Pissarro

Invocation to Love, c. 1781 Jean-Honoré Fragonard

A Poser George du Maurier

Maharaja Jagat Singh Hunting, 1734-1751 Unknown

The School of Sorrow, 1895 Luigi Rossi

Manfred on the Jungfrau, 1837 John Martin

The Abandoned Sandro Botticelli

The Denunciation John Collet

Thomas Chatterton receives a bowl of poison from Despair John Flaxman

Distribution of Bread at the Louvre during the Food Shortage, 1709 French School

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

The Corpse Felix Edouard Vallotton

La Nuit d'Octobre Eugene-Louis Lami

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

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

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

The Death of Lucretia Italian School

Illustration from 'Anvār-i Suhaylī, a collection of fables by Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī', by Khashifi Indian School

The Charnel House (Courrières) Henry De Groux