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Concept

Happiness

Images

  • Six faces expressing the passions: (clockwise from top left) joy, fear, pity, scorn, anger, and grief. Engraving by Silvester, 1807.
  • Two faces showing joy and laughter. Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • Drunken sailors round a table cheering and throwing their hats in the air as a man with a wooden leg recounts the Battle of the Nile. Reproduction of an etching by C. H., c. 1825, after G. Cruikshank.
  • Six vignettes on a design for a fan illustrating how to lead a moral and happy life. Stipple engraving, 1797.
  • A part happy, part sad face split in two by jagged wooden planks with Japanese lettering; a Japanese AIDS prevention advertisement. Colour lithograph, ca. 1996.
  • Two outlines of faces expressing joy (left) and the movement of the face in sadness (right). Etching by B. Picart, 1713, after C. Le Brun.
  • An old man sits content with a glass in one hand and a tankard in the other. Engraving by F.A. David, 1774, after A. van Ostade.
  • Faces expressing the passions and showing the muscles relation to expression, with an explanation of the art of 'pathognomy', the reading of facial expression. Etching, c. 1800.
  • A man recuperating in bed at a receiving-house of the Royal Humane Society, after resuscitation by W. Hawes and J.C. Lettsom from near drowning. Engraving by R. Pollard, 1787, after R. Smirke.
  • A woman's face expressing desire (left) and a man's face expressing 'joy with tranquility' (right). Engraving, c. 1760, after C. Le Brun.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The science of happiness : unlocking the mysteries of mood / Stephen Braun.

    Braun, Stephen, 1957- | Date: [2000], ©2000
    • Books
    • Online

    Strength and happiness / by Richard A. Proctor.

    Proctor, Richard A. (Richard Anthony), 1837-1888. | Date: 1885
    • Books

    Joyful noise : a zine about queer joy / Andro and Eve ; [designed and curated by Seleena Laverne Daye].

    Andro and Eve | Date: 2021
    • Books

    American mania : when more is not enough / Peter C. Whybrow.

    Whybrow, Peter C. | Date: [2005]
    • Books

    How to develop emotional health / Oliver James.

    James, Oliver, 1953- | Date: 2014
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