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Concept

Suicide

Images

  • The suicide of Cato. Etching by P. Testa, 1648.
  • A destitute girl throws herself from a bridge, her life ruined by alcoholism. Etching by G. Cruikshank, 1848.
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  • The death of Cleopatra. Etching by or after A. Hirschvogel, 1547.
  • The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    To be, or not to be : a study of suicide / by Louis I. Dublin and Bessie Bunzel.

    Dublin, Louis I. (Louis Israel), 1882-1969. | Date: 1933
    • Books

    Lost to the collective : suicide and the promise of Soviet socialism, 1921-1929 / Kenneth M. Pinnow.

    Pinnow, Kenneth Martin. | Date: 2010
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Scenes representing parts of life shown in cells of an underground grotto.

    Kurelek, William, 1927-1977 | Date: c.1953-1954 | Reference: PP/ADA/C/8/86
    Part of: Papers of Edward Adamson (1911-1996)
    • Books

    Trauma castle : childhood stories and surviving them / [Billy Bitter].

    Bitter, Billy | Date: [2017?]
    • Books

    Il suicidio in Italia (1864-1962) / [Stefano Somogyi].

    Somogyi, Stefano. | Date: [1967]
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