Sadness

Images from the collections

Images about Sadness

24 images from works
  • A woman's head, expressive of sublime compassion. Drawing, c. 1791, after Raphael.
  • A wretched man with an approaching depression; represented by encroaching little devils. Coloured lithograph, 183-.
  • Six faces expressing the human passions: (clockwise from top left) scorn, laughter, acute pain, desire, anger, sadness. Coloured etching, c. 1800, after C. Le Brun.
  • A part happy, part sad face split in two by jagged wooden planks with Japanese lettering; a Japanese AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two outlines of faces expressing joy (left) and the movement of the face in sadness (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • A man harrassed by personifications of greed, guilt, credulity, jealousy, sadness and pride. Engraving by P. Galle, ca 1563.
  • An ill man next to his empty hearth tormented by the miseries of life; presented surrounded by assorted chastising demons. Coloured etching by G. Cruikshank, 1835.
  • Three miserable men suffering from gout, toothache and flu sitting around a table. Coloured lithograph.
  • An elderly wretched man with a deformed hand, sitting on a table accidentally pouring a drink over himself. Coloured stipple engraving by E. Scriven, 1807, after J. Beresford.
  • Eight heads showing human passions. Etching by Taylor, 1788, after C. Le Brun.

Works from the collections