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Images about Suffering

7 images from works
  • 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.
  • Patients suffering from cholera in the Jura during the 1854 epidemic, with Dr Gachet attending them. Pencil drawing by A. Gautier, 1859.
  • Head of a man expressing acute pain. Pencil drawing after Charles Le Brun.

Works from the collections

41 works

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    Crook in the lot or the sovereignty and wisdom of God displayed in the afflictions of men. Being the substance of several sermons on Eccles. vii. 13. and Prov. xvi. 19. by the late Reverend and learned Thomas Boston, Minister of the Gospel.

    Boston, Thomas, 1677-1732. | Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]
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    The face of a great character expressing great affliction, according to Lavater. Drawing, c. 1793, after C. Le Brun or D.N. Chodowiecki.

    Charles Le Brun | 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.

    Dietrich von Engelhardt | Date: 1994
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    Pain : a cultural history / Javier Moscoso ; translated from the Spanish by Sarah Thomas and Paul House.

    Javier Moscoso | Date: 2012
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Pain
Stress, Psychological

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