Desperate posters & prints

The Desperate Man, 1843-45 Gustave Courbet

The Desperate Man, ca. 1515 Albrecht Dürer

A Desperate Defence Anonymous

Desperate Man Alphonse Legros

Gordon in China 1863 Anonymous

On the brink of suicide French School

Study for 'Deserted - a Foundling' Frank Holl

Unemployed workers desperate for work during the Great Depression Anonymous

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps Anonymous

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

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

The Desperate Man (Self-portrait) Gustave Courbet

No choice?, c.1850 William James Grant

The Mont de Piete Ferdinand Heilbuth

Desperation, c.1305 Giotto

The School of Sorrow, 1895 Luigi Rossi

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

Sufferers from the Floods John Thomson

The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) Gustave Courbet

Russian peasants Anonymous

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

Thomas Chatterton receives a bowl of poison from Despair John Flaxman

Desperate Adolescent, or Narcissus, 1885-90 Auguste Rodin

Russian peasants, late 19th century Unknown

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

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

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

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

On the March from Moscow, 1873 Laslett John Pott

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

The Terra Nova icebound Herbert George Ponting

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

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

The Abandoned Sandro Botticelli