Weakness Collection

The International Exhibition: "The Wounded Achilles", a plaster statue, by Carl Cauer, 1862. The action of Achilles endeavouring to extract the arrow from his heel

The Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, mid 19th century. Creator: WH Egleton
The Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, mid 19th century. Biblical scene, from Judges 16: 21: But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza

The Triumph of Want, from The Cycle of the Vicissitudes of Human Affairs, plate 6, 1564

Samson, c1887, (c1902). Creator: Unknown
Samson, c1887, (c1902). After a painting in the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Victorian imagining of an Old Testament scene: Delilahs victory over the bound Samson whose hair she has cut

The Irish Famine, 1845-1849, (1900). Interior of a peasant familys hut. Illustration from The life and times of Queen Victoria, by Robert Wilson, (1900)

Letter from Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York to Dr Stephen Gardiner, February or March 1530. Letter, written from Esher, shortly after Wolseys disgrace, to Gardiner, secretary to Henry VIII

The Compassion, 1887. Artist: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
The Compassion, 1887. Puvis de Chavannes, Pierre Cecil (1824-1898). Found in the collection of the State A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

The Three Ages of Man, allegory, late 16th century. Artist: Jacob de Backer
The Three Ages of Man, allegory, late 16th century. From the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Roman wall-painting from the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii, 1st centruy
Roman wall-painting from the House of the Dioscuri in Pompeii, showing Achilles revealed by Diomedes and Odysseus in Scyros. From the National Museum in Naples, 1st century

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