Consumption Collection

Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
Dropsy Courting Consumption, October 25, 1810

A young married couple, participants in the 'To Fight Consumption' campaign, 1913. Creator: Unknown
A young married couple, participants in the 'To Fight Consumption' campaign, 1913. From a collection of 136 photographs of Irkutsk from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Adirondack Mountains, c1902. Creator: William H. Jackson
Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, Adirondack Mountains, c1902

Le docteur Véron refusant tout espèce de consolation, 19th century. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le docteur Veron refusant tout espece de consolation, 19th century. Doctor Veron refusing all consolation. French opera manager and publisher Louis-Desire Veron was described thus by a contemporary

Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing. Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920. Creator: Harris & Ewing
Red Cross, between 1910 and 1920

'Dr. Koch's Treatment for Consumption at the Royal Hospital, Berlin; Professor Pfuhl Innoculating a Creator
'Dr. Koch's Treatment for Consumption at the Royal Hospital, Berlin; Professor Pfuhl Innoculating a Patient with the Lymph, 1890. From "The Graphic

Portrait presumed to be Louis XVII (1785-1795), between 1785 and 1795. Creator: Unknown
Portrait presumed to be Louis XVII (1785-1795), between 1785 and 1795

Portrait thought to be François-Victor Hugo. Creator: Unknown
Portrait thought to be Francois-Victor Hugo

Portrait d'enfant, autrefois présumé Louis XVII, . Creator: Unknown
Portrait d'enfant, autrefois presume Louis XVII

Portrait de Victor Hugo avec son fils François-Victor Hugo, 1836. Creator: Auguste de Chatillon
Portrait de Victor Hugo avec son fils Francois-Victor Hugo, 1836

Louis XVII separated from his mother, July 3, 1793, 1795. Creator: Jean-Jacques Hauer
Louis XVII separated from his mother, July 3, 1793, 1795

Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular migrant in a potato pickers camp. Kern County, California

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), CA, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular mother from Oklahoma now living in the Kern migrant camp (resettlement), California. She receives daily visits from the county nurse

A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family... penniless in New Mexico, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
A tubercular painter from Iowa and part of his family of nine who are stranded and penniless in New Mexico

Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Tubercular father of a family of nine who are stranded in New Mexico with no money

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade

Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Children of Oklahoma drought refugees on highway near Bakersfield, California. Family of six; no shelter, no food, no money and almost no gasoline. The child has bone tuberculosis

A Bad Case of Consumption, from Puck, 1890. Creator: Joseph Keppler
A Bad Case of Consumption, from Puck, 1890

Chapel of the Consumption Hospital at Brompton, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Chapel of the Consumption Hospital at Brompton, [west London], 1850. The contract for the Chapel was taken by Messrs. Hopkins and Roberts. The architect of this elegant memorial Chapel is Mr. E. B

Death in the Sickroom, 1896. Creator: Edvard Munch
Death in the Sickroom, 1896

Letter from John Keats to his sister, Fanny Keats, 14th August 1820. Artist: John Keats
Letter from John Keats to his sister, Fanny Keats, 14th August 1820. Letter from the poet John Keats to his sister, Fanny Keats, afterwards Senora Llanos, at the beginning of his last illness

Father Thames introducing his offspring to the fair city of London. 1858. (A design for a Fresco in the New Houses of Parliament.) Father Thames introduces his children, Diptheria

Sterne, (1713-1768), 1830. Creator: Unknown
Sterne, (1713-1768), 1830. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Irish novelist and Anglican clergyman who attended Jesus College, Cambridge, he published sermons, wrote memoirs

Tom Keats, 19th century. Portrait of the brother of the poet John Keats, who cared for him while he was suffering from tuberculosis

Hospital for Consumption, Torquay, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Hospital for Consumption, Torquay, 1858. This institution was founded in 1850 by a lady living in Wiltshire, who, struck with the large mortality from pulmonary disease which she observed in her

Fading Away, from "Illustrated Times", October 5, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Fading Away, from " Illustrated Times", October 5, 1858

Scene d Octobre: La jeune poitrinaire (An October Scene: The Young Consumptive, October 2-9, 1864. Creator: Unknown)
Scene d Octobre: La jeune poitrinaire (An October Scene: The Young Consumptive), from " Le Journal Illustre" no. 34, October 2-9, 1864

Portrait of Himself, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
Portrait of Himself, 1894. British artist and eccentric Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) depicts himself as a tiny figure in an enormous canopied bed

La Dame aux Camelias, 1894. Creator: Aubrey Beardsley
La Dame aux Camelias, 1894. Woman standing at a dressing table, wearing a voluminous white coat over an evening dress with peacock feather motifs

Medal commemorating the International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington D. C. 1908
Medal commemorating the International Congress on Tuberculosis, Washington D.C. 1908. Female allegorical figure holding a winged hourglass, with dragon

Allegory on the Death of the Dauphin, 1767. Creator: Gilles Demarteau
Allegory on the Death of the Dauphin, 1767

Frontispiece of Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development, 1883

The Consumption Hospital, Brompton, c1876. Creator: Unknown
The Consumption Hospital, Brompton, c1876. 19th century consumptive patients were turned away from hospitals as there was no known cure

John Keats, 1821, (c1876). Creator: Unknown
John Keats, 1821, (c1876). John Keats (1795-1821), English Romantic poet on his deathbed with tuberculosis aged 25, sedated with laudanum and opium. Keats moved to Hampstead in April 1817

Ludwig XVII, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Ludwig XVII, (1933). Portrait of the Dauphin, Louis XVII of France (1785-1795) whose parents King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette were guillottined in the French Revolution

Esquilache Mutiny (Madrid, 23 - 26 March 1766) because of the rising of the consumer products and the hate to the powerful minister of Charles III, Marquis of Esquilache

Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London, 1830. Artist: Isaac Robert Cruikshank
Scene in Covent Garden, Westminster, London, 1830. One of the afflicting occurrences in life in London, Tom, Jerry and Logic arrested in their progress home by the melancholy discovery of Corinthian

A fair held in the gardens of the Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London, c1842. Well-to-do people - the men in top hats - watch a military band

Broker Row (now Blomfield Street), London, c1780. Artist: B Warren
Scene of a man and woman discussing a book on consumption, printed by John Lever, outside John Levers bookshop on Broker Row, (now Blomfield Street), London, c1780

New Tuberculosis Hospital, Tampa, Fla. c1940s. [Tichnor Quality Views, Boston]

Scrophularia Ehrharti. Ehrharts Water-Betony, 19th Century. The green figwort, water betony, or water figwort, is a perennial herbaceous plant found in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere

Bringing the Body on Deck, c1900, (1910). The funeral on board a passenger liner of a steerage passenger who died from tuberculosis (consumption). From The Strand Magazine. [George Newnes Ltd

Charles II touching a patient for the Kings evil, c1680 (1903). Artist: Frederick-Hendrik van den Hove
Charles II touching a patient for the Kings evil, c1680 (1903).The royal touch was a form of laying on of hands, whereby French and English monarchs would touch their subjects

Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, c1534, (1902). Portrait of Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset (1519-1536) illegitimate son of King Henry VIII and his young mistress, Elizabeth Blount

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