Anxiety Gallery

The Nightmare, c1790. Artist: Henry Fuseli

The Nightmare, c1790. The feeling of suffocating anxiety experienced in a nightmare is represented by the demon, sitting on the dreamer's chest with implied sexual menace, while the terrifying image of the horse intrudes into the room through parted curtains. This is Fuseli's second work on the theme. Freud is supposed to have had an engraving of the image on the wall of his waiting room. From the collection of the Goethe Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

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The Hours of Awful Suspense in London, April 20, 1912. Creator: Unknown

The Hours of Awful Suspense in London, April 20, 1912. Relatives and friends of passengers on the Titanic studying the lists of the saved, and leaving the White Star Line offices at Oceanic House, Cockspur St, after making anxious enquiries for news'. The White Star Line ship RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland on 14 April 1912. She was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of her time, and thought to be unsinkable. In the collision, five of her watertight compartments were compromised and she sank. Out of the 2228 people on board, only 705 survived. A major cause of the loss of life was the insufficient number of lifeboats she carried. Page 14, from "Titanic In Memoriam Number", a special supplement in "The Daily Graphic" newspaper issued following the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912, published on 20 April 1912

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The Agonising Wait for the List of the Lost at Southampton, April 20, 1912. Creator: Unknown

The Agonising Wait for the List of the Lost at Southampton, April 20, 1912. Anxious friends and relatives wait for news of the fate of passengers on board the Titanic at the port she departed from, with portraits of passengers above, including Thomas Andrews, designer of the ship, who died in the disaster. The White Star Line ship RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in thick fog off Newfoundland on 14 April 1912. She was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner of her time, and thought to be unsinkable. In the collision, five of her watertight compartments were compromised and she sank. Out of the 2228 people on board, only 705 survived. A major cause of the loss of life was the insufficient number of lifeboats she carried. Page 17, from "Titanic In Memoriam Number", a special supplement in "The Daily Graphic" newspaper issued following the sinking of the Titanic on 15 April 1912, published on 20 April 1912

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