Hopelessness posters & prints

Unemployed (Day Laborers at the Port of Hamburg), 1908-1909 Anonymous

Workless, c. 1890 Ferdinand Hodler

A state ceremony in a hopeless downpour of rain Samuel Begg

No choice?, c.1850 William James Grant

Tramp at Night; Un Vagabond de nuit, Mihaly Munkacsy

Heroic Stories Louisa Marchioness of Waterford

The Hopeless Case, 1871 Antonio Rotta

Eternal Sunshine in The Hopeless Mind, 2020 Hardijanto Budiman

Lost to All Hope The Brig, c.1845-50 Joseph Mallord William Turner

Hopeless love, 1890 Anonymous

Detail of Lamentation Gerard David

Misery Anonymous

The Flower Seller, c.1879 Julian Alden Weir

Charity or The Indigent Family William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Hope in the Prison of Despair Evelyn de Morgan

The Cave of Despair Benjamin West

Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley, Leadenhall Street, City of London Anonymous

From the series The Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri dInvenzione) Anonymous

The Cave of Despair Benjamin West

From the series The Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri dInvenzione) Anonymous

Despair, 1886 Anonymous

Plate 54 from 'The Disasters of War': 'Ap…, 1811-12 Francisco Goya

Despair, 1881 Frank Holl

Despair, 1903 Stanislaw Bohusz Siestrzencewicz

Courage, Anxiety and Despair: Watching the Battle James Sant

Despair (Sick Mood at Sunset), 1892 Anonymous

Hope in the Prison of Despair Evelyn De Morgan

In despair Caspar Jacobsz. Philips

Homeless People Huddling Together Anonymous

Despair (Suffering), 1882 Anonymous

Tears from the depth of some divine despair Julia Margaret Cameron

Heartbreak Anonymous

Ariadne Ary Scheffer

Job's Despair, from Illustrations of the Book of Job, 1825-26 William Blake

The Desperate Man (Self-portrait) Gustave Courbet

Isolde Charles Edward Perugini