Melancholy Collection

Laurence Olivier / Hamlet
(Sir) LAURENCE OLIVIER British actor of stage and screen in the role of Hamlet (1948)

Melancholia

Melencolia I. Print shows a winged woman representing melancholy in the sense of an artists spiritual self-portrait. She is surrounded by many symbolic figures and objects

Poe / Poem / The Raven / C19Th
Quoth the raven, Nevermore

Robert Burton
ROBERT BURTON (1577-1640) English clergyman and author who wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy under the pseudonym of Democritus Junior in 1621

Poe / Poem / The Raven / C19Th
The dazed & melancholy man believes the raven will leave him, as his " hopes have flown before."

Melancholy and raving madness, Bedlam Hospital
The figures of melancholy and raving madness over the gateway into Bethlehem(Bedlam)Hospital. Statues by the Danish sculptor Caius Gabriel Cibber Date: 1813

Caricatured Hamlet on a music sheet
A caricatured Hamlet, probably based on Sir Henry Irving, on a music sheet entitled Hamlet Ye Dane, A Ghost Story, with music by J B Lawreen

Engraved title page. From: The anatomy of melancholy. Date: 1632

Comic postcard, Vegetable love, The Allotment Love Letter Date: 20th century

PHOTO OF DEAD 3 YR OLD
Isa Jane Cumming, born on 15th July 1866 and who died on 1st July 1869, was photographed by her grieving parents in order that they might remember how she looked. Date: 1869

Comic postcard, Man behind bars. In the Asylum - Triplets. Date: 20th century

Melancholy thistle, Cirsium heterophyllum (Carduus heterophyllus). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a drawing by James Sowerby for James Smiths English Botany, 1799

Emigration - A melancholy prospect. 19th century

Curtis British Entomology Plate 649
Diptera: Ortalis guttata = Otites guttatus [Plant: Cirsium heterophyllum (Melancholy Thistle)] Date: 1824-39

Parasol / Ackermann s
Cambric muslin morning dress with the skirt finished with a 13 tucks, in the French style. Pale fawn coloured spencer with cuffs & half-sleeves trimmed with full scallops

Antirrhinum Triste
Melancholy or Black-Flowered Toad-Flax Date: 1789

Snap Playing Card - Man with penny whistle. circa 1910s

Fur-Trimmed Ensemble
Loose fitting brown jacket gathered in at the waist with a high fur collar & cuffs, short, full skirt which narrows at its fur trimmed hem, a fur muff & brimless hat. Date: 1918

Mother and Child 1809
Fashionable mourning dress. The womans gown is decorated with vandyking at the neckline & edge of the sleeves. The childs dress has a square neckline with lace tucker. Date: 1809

Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot and a policeman
Illustration by Cecil Aldin, Spot wanders around the streets of London looking lost and is taken in charge by a policeman. " A melancholy troop we must have looked." Date: 1895

The Waefu Heart by T Duncan
Reproduction of the painting The Waefu Heart by Thomas Duncan (1807-1845) (original in the V&A collection). Date: 1841

Steam Boat Lexington Fire
Awful Conflagration of the Steam Boat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 13th 1840, by which melancholy occurrence, over 100 Persons Perished. Date: January 13th 1840

Unhappy Family
The unhappy family. 1833

Melancholy France
Surrounded with troubles on all sides, France has ample reasons to give way to melancholia

Beerbohm Tree / Hamlet
Sir HERBERT DRAPER BEERBOHM TREE English actor-manager in the role of Hamlet

Female / Melancholy 1907
Melancholie A lady sits on the rocks by the sea

Heine Calender
Illustration to: Quand fleurissait la rose nouvelle (When the new rose bloomed)

Cinderella Forlorn
Cinderella sits forlornly next to a lamp and cauldron while birds fly through the open window and feed on grain in a tray

Anxiety Melancholy
A patient suffering from anxiety melancholy (melancholie anxieuse) and subject to groaning

Religious Melancholy
A patient suffering from religious melancholy

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