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Famine

Widespread scarcity of food followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality

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Images from the collections

Images featuring Famine

10 images from works
  • Saint Benedict of Nursia: after he has assured the monks of his monastery that God would not let them starve, several sacks of corn appear, which porters carry into the monastery. Line engraving by G. Giovannini after L. Massari.
  • M0014873: Group of emaciated men during the famine in Bangalore (Bengaluru), 1876-78
  • Les Delices de Leide, Pieter van der Aa, 1712
  • SEM Phytophthora spores on rye grass root
  • The four horsemen of the Apocalypse galloping through the clouds. Woodcut, 16th century.
  • A skull; representing starving Germans who can be helped by the Netherlands Red Cross. Lithograph by A. van der Vossen, 1922 (?).
  • Diseased potatoes ... / Andrew Ure.
  • A skull; representing starving Germans who can be helped by the Netherlands Red Cross. Lithograph by A. van der Vossen, 1922 (?).
  • People in Bangalore, India, suffering from starvation. Wood engraving, 1877.
  • You've been fed, hand drawn illustration

Works from the collections

131 works

    • Books

    The Great Irish Famine / prepared for the Economic History Society by Cormac Ó Gráda.

    Cormac Ó Gráda | Date: [1989]
    • Pictures

    The siege of Leiden in 1574: starving people dying, people killing dogs for food etc. Line engraving.

    | Reference: 730777i
    • Books

    Famine : social crisis and historical change / David Arnold.

    Arnold, David (David J.), 1946- | Date: 1988
    • Books

    The famine in Mayo, 1845-1850 : a portrait from contemporary sources / compiled and edited by Ivor Hamrock.

    | Date: 1998
    • Books

    Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.

    Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley | Date: 2008
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Related topics

History, 19th Century
Food Supply
Ireland
Starvation
India
History, 20th Century
China
Economic history
Ancient

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