Rattling Bones
Skeletons and reminders of mortality.
The Burial of Punchinello
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1800
The Betrothal of the Virgin
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · ca. 1770
The Battle-Array of Carberry-hill near Edinburgh with the Surrender of Mary Queen of Scots to the Confederate Lords of Scotland, and the Escape of Earl Bothwell
Mary, Queen of Scots · George Vertue · John Oliver · Livinus de Vogelaare · Robert Peake the Elder · 1742
Untitled
Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
Untitled
Katsushika Hokusai · 18th–19th century
Plate 21 from "Los Caprichos": How they pluck her! (¡Qual la descañonan!)
Francisco Goya · 1799
Plate 20 from "Los Caprichos": There they go plucked (i.e. fleeced) (Ya van desplumados)
Francisco Goya · 1799
Plate 68 from "Los Caprichos": Pretty teacher! (Linda maestra!)
Francisco Goya · 1799
The Punishment Inflicted on Lemuel Gulliver
William Hogarth · Jonathan Swift · December 1726
The Lottery
William Hogarth · [after 1724]
Gin Lane
William Hogarth · February 1, 1751
Credulity, Superstition, and Fanaticism
William Hogarth · March 15, 1762
The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1786
Title Page, from "Carceri d'invenzione" (Imaginary Prisons)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Giovanni Bouchard · ca. 1749–50
A Peep into Friar Bacon's Study
Charles James Fox · Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford · The Right Honorable Edmund Burke · George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · William Humphrey · Thomas Rowlandson · March 3, 1784
A Charm for a Democracy, Reviewed, Analysed, & Destroyed Jan 1 1799 to the Confusion of its Affiliated Friends
Charles James Fox · Thomas Rowlandson · Henri Merke · James Whittle · Maximilien-François-Marie-Isidore de Robespierre · George III, King of Great Britain and Ireland · William Pitt · January 1, 1799
Chimneypiece in the Egyptian style, from Diverse Maniere d'adornare i cammini (...) (Different Ways of ornamenting chimneypieces and all other parts of houses)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · ca. 1769
The Skeletons, from "Grotteschi" (Grotesques)
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · Giovanni Bouchard · ca. 1748
The Weird Sisters (Shakespeare, MacBeth, Act 1, Scene 3)
Henry Fuseli · John Raphael Smith · John Raphael Smith · William Shakespeare · March 10, 1785
Count de Rochambeau, French General of the Land Forces in America Reviewing the French Troops
Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau · Edward Hedges · Anonymous, British, 18th century · April 1, 1781
Shakespeare – Sacrificed; or, The Offering to Avarice
James Gillray · James Aitken · William Shakespeare · June 20, 1789
Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition Feast
James Gillray · S. W. Fores · May 29, 1787
An Irish Howl
Thomas Rowlandson · ca. 1799
The Mourning of Pallas
Anne-Louis Girodet · ca. 1790–93
Tomb with Sphinxes and an Owl
Louis Jean Desprez · c. 1779–84
Study after Caravaggio's 'The Cardsharps' with color notes
Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) · Anonymous, Italian · 1600–1700
The Temptation of St. Anthony
Hieronymus Bosch · Jan and Lucas van Doetecum · n.d.
Study for The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Jacques-Louis David · ca. 1788
Nude Soldiers Gesticulating with Their Weapons (recto); Two Drapery Studies for the Figure of Tatius (verso)
Jacques-Louis David · 1796/97
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Nainsukh · ca. 1780
Untitled
Nainsukh · ca. 1775–80
The Death of St. Joseph
Velázquez (Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez) · Alexander Bannerman · Alonso Cano · John Boydell · 1766
The Lion Bas-Reliefs, plate 5 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1761
The Pier with Chains, plate 16 from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1761
Three Angels Appearing to Abraham
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · c. 1726
Title Page from Imaginary Prisons
Giovanni Battista Piranesi · 1761
The Cave of Despair
Henry Fuseli · c. 1769
Male Figure with Left Arm Raised Seen from the Back, and Fragment of Old Man
Henry Fuseli · 1770/75
Figure Studies (recto and verso)
Henry Fuseli · c. 1800
The Duke of Gloucester Lying in Wait for Lady Anne at the Funeral Procession of Her Father-in-law, King Henry VI (recto); Standing Male Nude, Leaning Forward (verso)
Henry Fuseli · 1760/67
Mourning over the Body of Saint Stephen
Annibale Carracci · 1604/1799
Chushingura: Act III of The Storehouse of Loyalty
Kitagawa Utamaro · late 1790s
Four Studies of Nude Men
Antonio Canova · Anonymous, Italian, early 19th century · 1757–1822
Prayer for the Flowering of the Rods
Giotto · n.d.
Concerto Coalitionale
Frederick Howard, 5th Earl of Carlisle · Thomas Powys, 1st Baron Lilford · James Sayers · Thomas Cornell · Frederick North, 2nd Earl of Guilford · Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby · John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich · William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland · William Eden, 1st Baron Auckland · The Right Honorable Edmund Burke · Charles Howard, 11th Duke of Norfolk · Charles James Fox · June 17, 1785
Hudibras and the Skimmington (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 9)
Samuel Butler · William Hogarth · 1721–26
Hudibras Beating Sidrophel and Whachum (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 12)
Samuel Butler · William Hogarth · 1721–26
Hudibras Catechized (Seventeen Small Illustrations for Samuel Butler's Hudibras, no. 14)
Samuel Butler · William Hogarth · 1721–26
Prospero, Miranda, and Caliban, from The Tempest
George Romney · c. 1786
Bedcover
Samuel Butler · 1780s
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