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Suffering

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  • Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.
  • A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.
  • Abraham and Isaac embrace in the wilderness, in the shock of their reprieve. Autotype after F.J. Shields, 1877.
  • A woman with a crutch, a man in chains and a man falling on a sword; allegory of suffering and the different forms of death. Engraving by P. Galle, c. 1563?.
  • Four faces of the damned in Dante's Hell. Drawing, c. 1791.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    The face of a great character expressing great affliction, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793, after C. Le Brun or D.N. Chodowiecki.

    Le Brun, Charles, 1619-1690. | Date: 1793? | Reference: 31613i
    • Books

    The pathos of distance : dis-ease and eudaimonia in Nietzsche's writings / by Matthew Klinsky.

    Klinsky, Matthew. | Date: 2007
    • Books

    La sofferenza nei secoli / di Dietrich von Engelhardt.

    Engelhardt, Dietrich von. | Date: 1994
    • Books

    Pain : a cultural history / Javier Moscoso ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Thomas and Paul House.

    Moscoso, Javier. | Date: 2012
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    • Online

    A bird's beak cuts a woman's hand; representing the sense of touch and the fact that it persists longer (in pain) than the other senses. Engraving, 16--.

    | Reference: 27049i
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