Desperation posters & prints

Desperation, c.1305 Giotto

The Desperate Man, 1843-45 Gustave Courbet

Unemployed workers desperate for work during the Great Depression Anonymous

Desperate Man Alphonse Legros

A Desperate Defence Anonymous

The Desperate Man, ca. 1515 Albrecht Dürer

The poor of Berlin rummaging in refuse heaps Anonymous

The School of Sorrow, 1895 Luigi Rossi

No choice?, c.1850 William James Grant

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

Thomas Chatterton receives a bowl of poison from Despair John Flaxman

Study for 'Deserted - a Foundling' Frank Holl

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

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

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

Sufferers from the Floods John Thomson

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

The Desperate Man (Self-portrait) Gustave Courbet

Desperate Adolescent, or Narcissus, 1885-90 Auguste Rodin

A Salvation Army Women's Shelter Charles Paul Renouard

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

From Morn Til Night, 1889 Augustus Edward Mulready

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

The Artist in Despair over the Magnitude of Antique Fragments 1778/80 Henry Fuseli

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

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

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

The Desperate Man (Self-Portrait) Gustave Courbet

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

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

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

The Denunciation John Collet

The Terra Nova icebound Herbert George Ponting

The Abandoned Sandro Botticelli

Detail of Lamentation Gerard David

Heads, 1910 Pavel Nikolayevich Filonov