Search

Books
Aristote : l'homme de génie et la mélancholie Problème XXX, 1 / traduction, présentation et notes par Jackie Pigeaud.
Jackie PigeaudDate: [1988]
Pictures
Online
Profile of a melancholy man with characteristics of penetration, fear, and distrust. Drawing, c. 1792.
Date: 1792?Reference: 29947i
Books
Online
De l'hypocondrie et de la mancolie / par V. L. E. Duvivier.
Duvivier, V. L. E.Date: 1853
Pictures
A tall, thin military officer carries on his shoulders an enormously fat parson dressed in gown and bands followed by a dejected-looking farmer. Etching by J. Gillray, 1783.
James GillrayDate: April 10 1783Reference: 585052i
Pictures
Online
A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.
Dunthorne, James, active 1780-1792.Date: 1 March 1788Reference: 18127i
Pictures
A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.
Albrecht DürerDate: 1800-1899Reference: 20093i
Books
"I know not why I am so sad" : melancholy and knowledge in early modern English painting, drama and prose / by Andrew Nicholas Daniel.
Daniel, Andrew Nicholas.Date: 2006
Digital Images
Online
Medical Times Gazette, "Melancholy passing into Mania"
Books
Online
Doctor merry-man: or, nothing but mirth. Written by S.R.
Samuel RowlandsDate: 1671
Pictures
Online
Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale after C. Cibber, 1680.
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.Reference: 25635i
Pictures
Online
David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by J. Rogers after A. Gros.
Antoine-Jean GrosReference: 18609i
Books
Online
De melancholia : dissertatio inauguralis quam ad lauream medicam assequendam / edit Bajetta Carolus Veronensis.
Bajetta, Charles.Date: MDCCCXLII [1842]
Pictures
Online
Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving in outline by [H.D.], 1816, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.Date: 1816Reference: 25641i
Books
Melancholy and culture : essays on the diseases of the soul in Golden Age Spain / by Roger Bartra ; translated from Spanish by Christopher Follett.
Roger BartraDate: 2008
Archives and manuscripts
Online
Receipt book, early 17th century
Date: early-mid 17th centuryReference: MS.8086
Pictures
Online
Profile of a man displaying a choleric-melancholic temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
Date: 1792?Reference: 29834i
Books
Where the roots reach for water : a personal and natural history of melancholia / Jeffery Smith.
Smith, Jeffery, 1961-Date: [1999]
Books
The worlds of Renaissance melancholy : Robert Burton in context / Angus Gowland.
Angus GowlandDate: 2006
Books
Les théories hellénistiques de la douleur / François Prost.
Prost, FrançoisDate: 2004
Pictures
Online
Profile of a man displaying a phlegmatic-melancholic temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.
Date: 1792?Reference: 29835i
Digital Images
Online
Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy...
Books
Online
The anatomy of melancholy : what it is. With all the kindes, causes, symptomes, prognosticks, and severall cures of it - in three maine partitions, with their severall sections, members, and subsections / philosophically, medicinally, historically, opened and cut up by Democritus Junior [i.e. Robert Burton] - with a satyricall preface, conducing to the following discourse.
Robert BurtonDate: Ao. Dom. 1624
Books
Some of the best advice my friends have given me.
@tinyvictorieszineDate: [201-?]
Pictures
Online
A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.
Date: Published as the Act directs, November 11th 1835Reference: 11201i
Pictures
Online
Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving, 1784, after C. Cibber, 1680.
Cibber, Caius Gabriel, 1630-1700.Date: 1784Reference: 25636i

Works search

Active filters:

Aristote : l'homme de génie et la mélancholie Problème XXX, 1 / traduction, présentation et notes par Jackie Pigeaud.

Profile of a melancholy man with characteristics of penetration, fear, and distrust. Drawing, c. 1792.

De l'hypocondrie et de la mancolie / par V. L. E. Duvivier.

A tall, thin military officer carries on his shoulders an enormously fat parson dressed in gown and bands followed by a dejected-looking farmer. Etching by J. Gillray, 1783.

A man suffering from depressed spirits ("hypochondria"), being tormented by doleful spectres. Coloured etching by T. Rowlandson after J. Dunthorne, 1788.

A despondent winged woman holding a geometrical instrument surrounded by attributes associated with knowledge; representing melancholia. Heliogravure attributed to C. Amand-Durand, 18--, after A. Dürer, 1514.

"I know not why I am so sad" : melancholy and knowledge in early modern English painting, drama and prose / by Andrew Nicholas Daniel.

Medical Times Gazette, "Melancholy passing into Mania"

Doctor merry-man: or, nothing but mirth. Written by S.R.

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale after C. Cibber, 1680.

David playing his harp for a distraught Saul. Steel engraving by J. Rogers after A. Gros.

De melancholia : dissertatio inauguralis quam ad lauream medicam assequendam / edit Bajetta Carolus Veronensis.

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving in outline by [H.D.], 1816, after T. Stothard, 1783, after C. Cibber, 1680.

Melancholy and culture : essays on the diseases of the soul in Golden Age Spain / by Roger Bartra ; translated from Spanish by Christopher Follett.

Receipt book, early 17th century

Profile of a man displaying a choleric-melancholic temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.

Where the roots reach for water : a personal and natural history of melancholia / Jeffery Smith.

The worlds of Renaissance melancholy : Robert Burton in context / Angus Gowland.

Les théories hellénistiques de la douleur / François Prost.

Profile of a man displaying a phlegmatic-melancholic temperament. Drawing, c. 1792.

Robert Burton, The anatomy of melancholy...

Some of the best advice my friends have given me.

A gouty man surrounded by his collection of artefacts, telling his doctor how they keep turning blue; suggesting the man's melancholic loneliness. Coloured lithograph, 1835.

Statues of "raving" and "melancholy" madness, each reclining on one half of a pediment, formerly crowning the gates at Bethlem [Bedlam] Hospital. Engraving, 1784, after C. Cibber, 1680.