Pathetic song posters & prints

Singing a Pathetic Song, 1881 Thomas Cowperthwait Eakins

The Mayor Of Casterbridge: Young Farfrae repeated the last verse. it was plain that nothing so pathetic had been heard... Robert Barnes

Two sad puppies having a bath Anonymous

Rocky Landscape with a Huntsman and Warriors Salvator Rosa

The Bird song Anonymous

The Sorrowful Lamentation of the Pedlars, and Petty Chapmen English School

Musical quotation from the Cradle song op. 16 no. 1 in A flat minor, 1893 Anonymous

An Amusing Song, Vittorio Reggianini

Musical Bather, 1934 Mark Gertler

Bulldog Preparing to Sing into Microphone Anonymous

The Soul's Prison House, 1888 Evelyn De Morgan

The Alcoholic, Father Mathias Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Looby Lump's life in London, a new song... George Cruikshank

The Pained Heart, or 'Sigh No More, Ladies', 1868 Arthur Hughes

Illustration for the poem 'Mariana' by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1875 Julia Margaret Cameron

The Song of the Shirt, or For Only One Short Hour, 1854 Anna E. Blunden

The Prisoner Joseph Wright of Derby

Bobbin' Around Anonymous

Arthur Lloyd's Great Comic Song 'Good-Bye John' or the Lass that Loved a Sailor Anonymous

The Song of the Shirt, 1854 Anna E. Blunden

To a new Court Tune, the burial English School

Sympathy Briton Riviere

A Merry new Song, Cries of London, (c1688?) Pierce Tempest

Illustrated lyric sheet for 'Martin de Cambrai' French School

Sophonisbe Receives the Poison Cup Simon Vouet

I Cannot Sing the Old Songs, in the Suffolk Street Exhibition 1868 Anonymous

1960s two adorable sad eyed beagle puppies lying one on top the other Anonymous

Ivan the Terrible and his Son on the 16th November, 1581, 1885 Ilya Efimovich Repin

Study for 'Among the Missing', c.1894 Walter Langley

They took a sad farewell of each other A S Forrest

Telescopic Philanthropy John Tenniel

Before the Song, 2012 Patricia Brintle

The Song Repetition. Around 1869. Oil on canvas. Edgar Degas

Argan and Monsieur Purgon Grandville

Song in the Distance, 1914 Ferdinand Hodler

Death of the Fairy Queen John Anster Fitzgerald