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Melancholy

Cultural and philosophical concept describing a state of mood or temperament

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Images referencing Melancholy

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  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia. Colour lithograph, 1892, after J. Williamson, 1890.
  • Medical Times Gazette, "Suicidal Melancholy"
  • David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by J. Rogers after A. Gros.
  • A sick man gazes in a melancholy way, while his family and pets play. Coloured etching, c. 1820.
  • David playing the harp for a melancholy Saul to ease his mind, they are surrounded by courtiers. Etching by J. Kip after G. Freman.
  • The Medical Times and Gazette, "Religious Melancholy"
  • A woman diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with fear, or fear of everything, and with a propensity to attempt suicide. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing made for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • A man diagnosed as suffering from melancholia with strong suicidal tendency. Lithograph, 1892, after a drawing by Alexander Johnston, 1837, for Sir Alexander Morison.
  • Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.
  • St Luke's Hospital, Cripplegate, London: the interior of the women's ward, with many inmates and a member of staff. Coloured aquatint by J.C. Stadler after A.C. Pugin and T. Rowlandson, 1809.
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Mental Disorders
Major Depressive Disorder
Mentally ill
Physiognomy
Face
Temperament
Chains
Dangerously mentally ill
Psychiatric hospital patients - Restraint
Characters and characteristics