Hopeless Collection

The Absinthe Drinker, c. 1890. Creator: Albert Emmanuel Bertrand
The Absinthe Drinker, c. 1890

Skid Row, Howard Street, San Francisco, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Skid Row. Howard Street, San Francisco, California

A Hopeless Mésalliance, from Puck, published January 4, 1893. Creator: Charles Jay Taylor
A Hopeless Mesalliance, from Puck, published January 4, 1893

Pictures of the Year- VII, "A Hopeless Dawn", 1888. Creator: Frank Bramley
Pictures of the Year- VII, " A Hopeless Dawn", 1888. From, The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume38. July to December, 1888

Factory worker, 1926. Creator: Hoerle, Heinrich (1895-1936)
Factory worker, 1926. Private Collection

The Madelonnettes Prison, c. 1810. Creator: Boilly, Louis-Leopold (1761-1845)
The Madelonnettes Prison, c. 1810. Found in the collection of Musee Carnavalet, Paris

The prisoners of Saint-Lazare, ca 1794. Creator: Robert, Hubert (1733-1808)
The prisoners of Saint-Lazare, ca 1794. Found in the collection of Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Corridor of the Saint-Lazare Prison, c. 1793. Creator: Robert, Hubert (1733-1808)
Corridor of the Saint-Lazare Prison, c. 1793. Found in the collection of Musee Carnavalet, Paris

Yearnings (Wünsche), 1878 / 1880. Creator: Max Klinger
Yearnings (Wunsche), 1878/1880

Plate 54 from The Disasters of War (Los Desastres de la Guerra): Appeals are in vain. (Clamores en vano.), 1811-12 (published 1863)

A Questioning of a Prisoner, c. 1630. Creator: Codde, Pieter (1599-1678)
A Questioning of a Prisoner, c.1630. Found in the Collection of Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava

The Zindan (Prison), 1930s. Creator: Bure, Leon (Lev) Leonardovich (1887-1943)
The Zindan (Prison), 1930s. Found in the Collection of Regional I. Savitsky Art Museum, Nukus

Cossacks convoying deportees, 1831. Artist: Anonymous
Cossacks convoying deportees, 1831. From a private collection

Only so far afflicted, that we live desiring without hope, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
Only so far afflicted, that we live desiring without hope, c1890. Dante and the Roman poet Virgil. Illustration from " The Vision of Hell" (Inferno)

All hope abandon, ye who enter here, c1890. Creator: Gustave Doré
All hope abandon, ye who enter here, c1890. Dante and the Roman poet Virgil enter Hell. Illustration from " The Vision of Hell" (Inferno)

The Morning before the Execution, 1881, (1965). Creator: Vasily Surikov
The Morning before the Execution, 1881, (1965). Detail, showing groups of the condemned during the Moscow Streltsy uprising of 1698. (The Streltsy were units of Russian firearm infantry)

A citizen of the world searching for a wise prince, 1771. A blindfolded man walks an empty street carrying a lantern and wearing a long, furred civic gown

Interior view of the premises of Nathaniel Bentley, Leadenhall Street, City of London, 1804. People inspecting one of the rooms inside the house that Bentley allowed to decay into squalor after his

Old Bailey, Newgate Prison, London, c1760
View of a line of chained convicts from Newgate Prison, Old Bailey, London, being taken to Blackfriars for transportation, c1760

Le Ramasseur de Bouts de Cigares, 1841. Creator: Honore Daumier
Le Ramasseur de Bouts de Cigares, 1841. Ils n'en finiront pas ces oiseaux la! c'est des clercs d'huissiers, ca fume jusqu a la cendre, et pas moyen de leur tirer des carottes'

A Hopeless Dawn, 1888, (c1915). Artist: Frank Bramley
A Hopeless Dawn, 1888, (c1915). Held by the Tate, London. From Famous Pictures of the World, c1900

The Excommunication of Robert the Pious, 1875. Artist: Jean-Paul Laurens
The Excommunication of Robert the Pious, 1875. Nicknamed the Pious, Robert II (972-1031) was King of France from 996. He was temporarily excommunicated by Pope Gregory V

Unemployed (Day Laborers at the Port of Hamburg), 1908-1909. Found in the Collection of Kunsthalle, Hamburg

From the series The Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d Invenzione). Found in the Collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Tasso in the Prison, 1853. Found in the collection of State Hermitage, St. Petersburg

Workless, c. 1890. Artist: Hodler, Ferdinand (1853-1918)
Workless, c. 1890. Private Collection

The Prisoner of Chillon. Artist: Delacroix, Eugene (1798-1863)
The Prisoner of Chillon. Found in the collection of Louvre, Paris

The Drawbridge. From the series The Imaginary Prisons (Le Carceri d Invenzione). Private Collection

Before the Confession, 1879-1885. Artist: Repin, Ilya Yefimovich (1844-1930)
Before the Confession, 1879-1885. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

An Arrant Knave (Arrested person), 1873. Artist: Perov, Vasili Grigoryevich (1834-1882)
An Arrant Knave (Arrested person), 1873. Found in the collection of the State History Museum, Moscow

A Resting Place of Prisoners, 1878-1879. Artist: Vereshchagin, Vasili Vasilyevich (1842-1904)
A Resting Place of Prisoners, 1878-1879. Found in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, New York

Here, sheltered by steep cliffs, he sat down to rest, c1912 (1912). In a state of desperation Brutus sheltered in the cliffs, unable to defeat Mark Antony with dwindling men and minimal supplies

Napoleon Bonaparte at the end of the battle of Waterloo, 18th June 1815. Napoleon (1769-1821) French soldier and emperor, fleeing from the battlefield of Waterloo after his defeat by the British

After the Seizure, 1925. Artist: Jean Louis Forain
After the Seizure, 1925. An etching from Modern Masters of Etching, by JL Forain, (The Studio, London, 1925)

Charity or The Indigent Family, 1865, (1912). Artist: William-Adolphe Bouguereau
Charity or The Indigent Family, 1865, (1912). A colour print from Famous Paintings, with an introduction by Gilbert Chesterton, Cassell and Company, (London, New York, Toronto, 1912)

Attempts at Rescue, 1901. The Drama of Russia, Illustration published in, Le Petit Journal, 27th January 1901

The Poverty-Stricken Family, or The Suicide, 1849, (1897). An illustration from Le Petit Journal, 31st January 1897

Study, 1843-1927. Artist: Luke Fildes
Study, 1843-1927

Vagabond, c1880-1891 Artist: Georges-Pierre Seurat
Vagabond, c1880-1891

Descent from the Cross, 16th century. Artist: Jacopo Bassano il vecchio
Descent from the Cross, 16th century. From the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon, Portugal

Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. Artist: Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn
Christ Drives the Money-Changers from the Temple, 1626. From the Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

John Howard (1726-1790), 1883. Howard, English philanthropist and prison reformer, visiting a prison during his investigation of prison conditions

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