Fainting posters & prints

Camilla fainting in the arms of her father Henry Singleton

Fainting of the Virgin Federico Fiori Barocci or Baroccio

The Faint Pietro Longhi

An Imaginary Landscape with a Traveller and Figures Overlooking the Bay of Baiae Thomas Jones

Argenis swoons Jan Luyken

A Clinical Lesson with Doctor Charcot at the Salpetriere, 1887 Pierre Andre Brouillet

The Virgin Fainting, 1856 Hippolyte (1797-1856) Delaroche

A Swooning Lady, late 19th century Unknown

Britannia Between Death and the Doctor's Anonymous

It's Up to You Recruitment Poster Schneck

Parading Guardsmen 1979 Staff

Old woman leaning over two fainting women, c.1776 Jacques Louis David

Visiting the Sick Anonymous

Taming of the shrew, Katharine and Petruchio, The modern Quixotte, or, what you will James Gillray

Holy Family with Saint Anne (recto), Figure Sketches (verso) Pietro Testa

Taming of the Shrew Anonymous

Esther fainting before Ahasuerus, 1730 Anonymous

Woman Fainting During Duel Anonymous

The Story of a Seaside Elopement: Mamma, Thinking Matters Are Coming to a Crisis, Pleads Fatigue, and Returns Home Anonymous

Engraving of a Suspect Fainting Before Judge During Witch Hunt Trial Darley

The Pilot faints Gustave Dore

Illustration of Anne Boleyn Fainting Before Henry VIII Anonymous

The Virgin Mary Being Comforted Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Gretchen in the Cathedral, c.1850 Ferdinand Victor Eugene Delacroix

Mahomed falls into raptures at the feet of his wife Kadiga Timotheus ten Hoorn

The Letter or The Fainting Louis Leopold Boilly

My dear! You fainted... admirably. It really made a lasting impression!, 1838 Anonymous

Illustration for Charles Dickens' Nicholas Nickleby, 1839 Hablot Knight (1815-92) Browne

Casualties of London street walking; a faint impression, London Anonymous

A woman faints before a prince, a night scene from a Madhavanala Kamakandala series, c. 1700 Unknown

Crucifixion Flemish School

The Crucifixion Giotto (c.1266-1337)

Christ on the Cross Goossen van der Weyden

Mary Queen of Scots Antoinette Cecile Hortense Lescot Haudebourt

The Distressed Poet, 1866 Thomas Frank Heaphy

The Entombment Lelio Orsi da Novellara