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  • A man in a state of grief. Drawing, c. 1794.
  • Six faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) joy, fear, pity, scorn, anger, and grief. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.
  • Seneca preparing his own death: he begs his wife to temper her grief. Etching by J.F.P. Peyron, ca. 1773.
  • A mother cries in grief while comforting her dying daughter, who holds a rosebud with falling petals. Coloured lithograph by J. Bouvier.
  • Christ's body is carried to its tomb; Mary faints in grief. Chiaroscuro woodcut by A. Andreani, 1585, after R. Motta da Reggio.
  • Socrates, preparing to kill himself, urges his grieving friends and students to moderate their grief. Engraving by J.F.P. Peyron, 1790.
  • A young man weeps in grief by the death bed of a young woman. Line engraving by J. Brown, 1846, after J. Barker.
  • A standing nude female figure bowing her head in her hands in an attitude of grief. Engraving by Defehrt after C.N. Cochin.
  • People crowd around a dying person's bed in grief while final rites are being read. Stipple engraving by N. Schiavonetti, 1812, after R. Westall.
  • A grief-stricken widower holds his child while the spirit of its mother, seen only by the child, descends to impart her blessing to the father. Drawing.
  • A man (Pascal?) standing in an alcove pressing his right hand to his heart; representing grief for AIDS-victims, to be expressed in a procession in Berlin. Colour lithograph, 1993.
  • The contrite heart is tormented by Grief and Fear, but secured by Faith and Hope, while Love wounds it with one hand and soothes it with another; above, the Tetragrammaton, and below, the portrait of John Hayward in a roundel. Engraving by T. Cecill, 1636, after W. Hole.
  • A wounded reclining man with an American (?) woman on whose knee sits a child, with two men in attitudes of grief. Soft ground etching by Elizabeth Foster after Caroline Stuart-Wortley, Baroness Wharncliffe.
  • The suicide of Cleopatra: Cleopatra is shown seated on a chair with the asp wriggling up her left arm while her maid shields her face in a gesture of horror and grief. Line engraving by J.G. Wille, 175-, after C. Netscher.
  • Opiologia. Or, a treatise concerning the nature, properties, true preparation and safe use and administration of opium. For the comfort ... of all such persons as are inwardly afflicted with any extreame griefe, or languishing paine, especially such as deprive the body of all naturall rest, and can be cured by no other meanes ... / Done into English, and something inlarged by Thomas Bretnor.
  • Speculum ægrotorum: the sicke-mens glasse: or a plaine introduction wherby one may giue a true and infallible iudgement, of the life or death of a sicke bodie, the originall cause of the griefe, how he is tormented and afflicted, what thinges are medicinable to the diseased person: and the day and houre in which he shall recouer, or surrender his vitall breath. Whereunto is annexed a treatise of the foure humors, and how they are ingendered and distributed in our humane bodies; with certaine and manifest signes to discerne of whate complexion any man is: and the operation that eating, drinking, rest and exercise, worketh in euery person: with certain speciall preseruatiues for the eye-sight / Composed by John Fage.
  • A weak woman in a state of exertion (left) and terror on the face of a boy (right). Drawing, c. 1793.
  • An Egyptian father holding the body of his dead young son in his lap while the mother of the boy buries her head in his lap. Etching by A. Mongin after a painting by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
  • A young woman wearing a crown deposists a flower garland on a tomb and burns incense on a stone nearby. Line engraving.
  • A grieving widow consoled by her young daughter; both standing before a picture propped up on an easel. Wood engraving by Horace Harral.
  • A dead man is carried on a bier with a distressed woman walking alongside. Etching by Michel Corneille after Annibale Carracci.
  • A bereaved mother mourning her dead daughter in a graveyard, stricken with remorse for having treated her harshly in her lifetime. Engraving by R.L. Wright.
  • A man kneeling and praying at a tomb in a cemetery is joined by another gentleman. Line engraving by Taylor after J. Thurston.
  • A distressed young woman leaning on a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • A distressed young woman leaning on a dilapidated wall in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.
  • Two children visiting a grave in a cemetery. Aquatint.
  • A woman, surrounded by her young children, receives a telegram with distressing news. Chromolithograph after a drawing by T. Roberts.
  • A man and a boy contemplating gravestones in a cemetery. Line engraving by J.M. Delattre after J.H. Ramberg.
  • Fleda and Mrs Rossitur visiting the grave of Hugh Rossitur. Engraving with etching.
  • A young woman weeping over a tombstone in a graveyard. Etching with engraving.