Macabre

Special Collections Gallery
Charles Marvin Fairchild Memorial Gallery

Apocalypse

Apocalypse, Gabor F. Peterdi

Apocalypse

Gabor F. Peterdi
Etching with engraving on paper

1952
9/15

Art Collection purchase
1990.5.17

Book of Revelation, Bernard Reder-1

Book of Revelation, Bernard Reder-2

Two verses from the Book of Revelation

Bernard Reder
Woodcut on paper
1954

Art Collection purchase
2002.19.1.9 & 2002.19.1.17

The Myriopticon, Milton Bradley-1

The Myriopticon, Milton Bradley-2

The Myriopticon, a Historical Panorama of the Rebellion

Milton Bradley
Lithograph on paper
1866-1870

1111.1.6490

Fur Dich, du Armes Vaterland, Eduard Stritt

Für Dich, du Armes Vaterland

For You, Suffering Fatherland

Eduard Stritt

Aquatint on paper
1919

Gift of Fred Beck
2018.8.1

Remembrance of Things Past, Fritz Eichenberg

Remembrance of Things Past

Fritz Eichenberg
Wood engraving on paper
1983
47/50

Art Collection purchase
1111.1.6472.1

Ring Around the Rosie, Rosemary Feit Covey

Ring Around the Rosie

Rosemary Feit Covey
Resingrave engraving on paper
1997
14/60

Gift of Eric Mackenzie in memory of
William C. Garwood and Gwendolyn Garwood
2011.1.336

Tod im All, Fritz Schwimbeck

Tod im All

Death Encompasses All

Fritz Schwimbeck
Etching with aquatint on paper
ca. 1920
XIII/XV

Gift of Murray Lebwohl
1993.29.6.7

The Coming Battle, Michael Paget Baxter

The Coming Battle, and the Appalling National Convulsions Foreshown...

Michael Paget Baxter
Commercial/offset printing on paper

Philadelphia: W. Harbert, 1860

BT885 .B29 1860

The Revelation of St. John, Azaria Mbatha

The Revelation of St. John

Azaria Mbatha
Linocut on paper
1964
ed. 70

Gift of Steve Macfarlane
1987.7.4

Dies Irae, Sid Hammer

Dies Irae

Day of Wrath

Sid Hammer
Thermo-intaglio on paper

1962

Gift of John Rackham
1994.4.18

Michael Wolgemut's Dance of Death

Dance of Death

Michael Wolgemut
Woodcut on paper
1493

Hartmann Schedel
Liber Chronicarum
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1493
1111.1.678

Eye Catechism-1

Eye Catechism-2

Hell

James Dymock
Engraving on paper
ca. 1685


James Dymock
An Eye Catechism

London, ca. 1685
95A5

La Punition du Mauvais Riche, Jean Baptiste Loyson-1

La Punition du Mauvais Riche, Jean Baptiste Loyson-2

La Punition du Mauvais Riche

Punishment of the Rich Man

Jean Baptiste Loyson
Engraving on paper
1676

Jean-Baptiste Loison
Histoire de la Vie et Passion de nostre Sauveur Jesus Christ...

Paris: Jean Baptiste Loison, 1676

Woodstock Theological Library
EQ246 T114

Yorick Paired, Ted Bieler

Yorick Paired

Ted Bieler
Woodcut on paper

1998

3/35

1111.1.6334

Caiaphas, Salvador Dali

Caiaphas, Canto XXIII, 115-117

Salvador Dalí
Woodcut on paper
1959 - 1963

Dante Alighieri
La Divine Comedie (Enfer)
Paris: Les Heures Claires, 1964

Gift of Denise and Alan Gross
1111.78.1

Ciacco and the Gluttons, Sandow Birk

Ciacco and the Gluttons, Canto VI, 53-55

Ciacco and the Gluttons, Canto VI, 53-55

Sandow Birk
Lithograph on paper
2003

ed. 100

Dante Alighieri
Divine Comedy (Inferno)
San Francisco: Trillium Press, 2003
PQ 4315.2 .B47 2003

Memento Mori

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, Cornelis Cort

Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence

Cornelis Cort
Woodcut on paper

1571

1111.1.639

P. Joannes de Acosta, cum Duobus Socijs, Melchior Kusel

P. Joannes de Acosta, cum Duobus Socijs

Melchior Kusel
Engraving on paper
1675

Mathias Tanner
Societas Jesu Usque ad Sanguinis et Vitae Profusionem Militans...

Pragae: Typis Universitatis Carolo-Ferdinandeae, 1675

The Shea Collection
BX 3755 .T3 1675

Santa Resitituta-1

Santa Resitituta-2

Antonio Gallonio's Historia delle Sante Vergini Romane…

Santa Restituta

Antonio Tempesta
Engraving on paper
1591

Antonio Gallonio
Historia delle Sante Vergini Romane…

Roma: Presso Ascanio, e Girolamo Donangeli, 1591


The John Thatcher Collection
BX 4659 .I8 G34 1591

Loca Orientis...,Abraham Ortelius

Loca Orientis in Bibliis Sacris Martyrologio Aliisq. Historii Occurentia

Abraham Ortelius
Engraving on paper

1624
 

Balthasar Moretus
Theatri Orbis Terrarum Parergon

Antwerpen: Balthasar Moretus, 1624

Gift of Deena Barlev in memory of her father, Samuel Halperin

2015.14.123

Beata Chiara of Montefalco, Battista Piergilij de Bevagna

Vero Ritratto del Cuore della Beata Chiara di Montefalco

True Portrait of the Heart of Blessed Clare of Montefalco

Battista Piergilij de Bevagna
Letterpress with woodcut on paper

ca. 1800

GTA-000860 Box 1

Broadside telling the story of St. Clare of Montefalco: “Jesus, carrying His Cross, appeared to Clare and said: “I have been searching for a long time, daughter, to find a firm and solid place on which to plant My Cross, and I have not found one more suitable than your heart. You must receive it and allow it to take root.”

When her heart was opened after her death, the Cross and other instruments of the Passion were found within, formed solidly in fibrous tissue. The crucifix was found to be about the size of a person's thumb. The corpus was white and clearly formed as if sculpted, except for the tiny wound of the lance, which was bright red. A white tissue covers the loins of the corpus.”

--from The Franciscan Book of Saints

VII. Picture…

Johann Salver (copy after)
Lithograph on paper
1857

Johannes Gossner
The Mirror of the Heart: Commonly Called The Heart Book

Mangalore India: German Mission Press, 1857

BV 4515 .G6713 1857

Shown is the heart of a man who, after having repented, gives himself to sin again, and thus becomes an absolute slave to sin and Satan. Note the apprehensive angel and the fast-fleeing dove of the Holy Spirit.

Infelix Ego Homo!, Boetius Adams Bolswert-1

Infelix Ego Homo!, Boetius Adams Bolswert-2

Infelix Ego Homo!

How Unhappy I Am!

Boetius Adams Bolswert
Engraving on paper
1709

Herman Hugo
Pia Desideria Tribus Tomis Comprehensa...
Coloniae: Sumpt. Wilh. Metternich…, 1709

97A242

Speculum Propriae Vilitatis

The Mirror of One’s Own Worthlessness

Theodor Galle
Engraving on paper
1610

Joannes David
Duodecim Specula Deum Aliquando Videre Desideranti Concinnata

Antverpiae: Ex officina Plantiniana, apud Ioannem Moretum, 1610

Gift of John A. Mellin
BJ 1240 .D34 1610

The New Phoenix, Fritz Eichenberg

The New Phoenix

Fritz Eichenberg
Wood engraving on paper

1981

8/50

Art Collection purchase
1986.4.13.1

Dance of the Ghedes, Legba Laughed, Renee Stout

Dance of the Ghédés / Legba Laughed

Renée Stout
Screenprint/serigraph on paper

2000

AP

Art Collection purchase
2018.5.1

Reliquaries

Reliquaries (Set of 4)

Maker unknown
Tin on wood

19th century

1111.1.1238

Reliquaries 2

Reliquaries

Makers unknown
19th century

Holy Trinity Archives
Box 46 Folder 7

Reliquery

Reliquary with Miniature Portrait

Maker unknown
Ivory, brass, foil

19th century
 

1111.1.1227

Set Design for Everyman, Prentiss Taylor-1

Costume design for Everyman, Prentiss Taylor-2

Set Design and Costume Design for Dethe (Death) for the Play "Everyman"

Prentiss H. Taylor
Watercolor on paper

1925

Gift of Roderick Quiroz
2002.22.3.1 & 2002.22.3.5

Mahasattva Gives His Body to Tiger Cubs

Mahasattva Gives His Body to Tiger Cubs

Artist unknown
Gouache on paper

Undated

Gift of Jane Norman for the Estate of Mary Slusser
1111.1.6489

Locket with George Washington's hair

Locket Containing Lock of George Washington’s Hair

Maker unknown
Gold, glass

ca. 1840

Gift of Charles Hoffman
1111.54.1

Mourning necklace

Mourning or Memorial Necklace

Maker Unknown
Hair with Brass Clasps
ca. 1830

1111.33.1

Sibbel Parsons Gravestone Rubbing

Sibbel Parsons, Bennington, Vermont, 1787

Ann Parker and Avon Neal
Gravestone rubbing: ink on paper

1963

XI/XX

Gift of Murray Lebwohl
1987.19.6

Funeral plaque

Provenance note on funeral plaque

Funeral Plaque

Joseph Mobberly
19th century

Maryland Province Archives

Death's Door, William Blake

Death's Door

William Blake
Etching on paper

1813

Art Collection purchase
1988.8.7

Mother's Grave, P. O. Vickery

Mother's Grave

P. O. Vickery
Lithograph on paper

1882


1111.1.6013

Reliquary with Splinters from the True Cross

Reliquary with Splinters from the True Cross

Maker unknown
Metal (silver gilt/vermeil)

18th century

1111.1.1239

Certificate of authenticity for relic of the True Cross

Authentic

Certificate of authenticity for relic of the True Cross

Joseph Cardinal Puteobonelli
Letterpress with ink on paper

1766

GTA-000860 Box 1

Masque of Anarchy Binding

Masque of Anarchy Binding

The Masque of Anarchy: A Poem

Sangorski & Sutcliffe binding
Embossed, painted, and gilded leather

ca. 1918

Percy Bysshe Shelley
London: E. Moxon, 1832

Gift of Mrs. Nicholas M. Brady
76VA21

Not-So-Scary Monster

Vampiros en la Habana, Nelson Ponce

Vampiros en la Habana

Nelson Ponce
Screenprint/serigraph on paper

ca. 1990

Art Collection purchase
2008.10.514

Empty Paper Bags, Rosemary Feit Covery

Empty Paper Bags

Rosemary Feit Covey
Resingrave engraving on paper

2000

25/80

Gift of Eric Mackenzie in memory of
William C. Garwood and Gwendolyn Garwood
2011.1.359

Ghostiana & Fantomia

Scrapbook compiled by Stewart Marsh Ellis;
Label added by Montague Summers ca. 1935

GTM-110501 Box 19

Something Rolled across the Threshold

Frank Gillett
Commercial/offset printing on paper
1908

F. Marion Crawford
"The Screaming Skull." From
The Red Magazine, 1908

GTM-110501 Box 16 Folder 7

Torngats that Come Knocking in the Night, Tivi Etok

Torngats that Come Knocking in the Night

Tivi Etok
Stonecut on paper

1974

4/45

Bequest of Mona Dingle
2010.1.53

Qalupaliq, Lipa Pitsiulak

Qalupaliq

Lipa Pitsiulak
Stonecut on paper

ca. 1979

19/50

Bequest of Mona Dingle
2010.1.12

Kachi-Kachi Mountain, Kobayashi Eitaku

Kachi-Kachi Mountain

Kobayashi Eitaku
Woodcut on paper

David Thompson (translator)
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1885

Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of Milton M. Rose
2015.33.61

The Ogres of Oyeyama, Kobayashi Eitaku

The Ogres of Oyeyama

Kobayashi Eitaku
Woodcut on paper

Mrs. T. H. James (translator)
Tokyo: Kobunsha; Yokohama: Kelly & Walsh, ca. 1891

Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of Milton M. Rose
2015.33.67

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow, Kobayashi Eitaku

The Tongue-Cut Sparrow

Kobayashi Eitaku
Woodcut on paper

David Thompson (translator)
Tokyo: T. Hasegawa, 1885

Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of Milton M. Rose
2015.33.58

Hens in a Hearse, Alen MacWeeney

Hens in a Hearse, Mayo

Alen MacWeeney
Endura print

2007

Gift of Marc Jaffe
2008.11.1.5

Faulnis, Richard Teschner

Fäulnis

Decay

Richard Teschner
Etching with aquatint on paper

1916

Gift of John Rackham
1995.2.10.7

Die Zuschauer

The Audience

Richard Teschner
Etching with aquatint on paper

1916

Gift of John Rackham
1995.2.10.8

The Temptation of St. Anthony, Ralph Fabri

The Temptation of St. Anthony

Ralph Fabri
Etching on paper

20th century

Gift of Phyllis Newbeck
2000.4.70

St. Anthony

St. Anthony

Francesco Valesio
Engraving on paper
1763

Francesco Valesio
Raccolta di Santi Padri nel Deserto

Bologna: S. Filippo Neri, 1763 

NE 1712 .V45 1763

but others who beset their thoughts....,David M. Moyer

but others who beset in their thoughts…

David M. Moyer
Lithograph on paper

1995

7/10

Gift of the artist
1111.1.3599.7

The Artist and the Seven Deadly Sins, Fritz Eichenberg

The Artist and the Seven Deadly Sins

Fritz Eichenberg
Wood engraving on paper

1975

2/100

Gift of James W. Elder
1988.37.82

Zorn, Karl Friedrich Bell

Zorn (Wrath)

Karl Friedrich Bell
Woodcut on paper

1922

42/100

Fairchild Endowment Fund purchase
2014.31.1.6

Natural History Cycle, Table 5, Jan Svankmejer

Natural History Cycle, Table 5

Jan Svankmejer
Etching on paper
1973
46/65

Art Collection purchase
2018.3.1

 

Blue Devil on a Missile, Kathleen Spagnolo

Blue Devil on a Missile

Kathleen Spagnolo
Gouache with ink on paper

1944

Gift of the Estate of Kathleen Spagnolo
2016.15.69.3

Mark Polo's Era, David Fraiser Driesbach

Mark Polo’s Era

David Fraiser Driesbach
Etching on paper

2002

8/20

Gift of the artist
2014.9.6.1

Sorcery and Possession

The Mystery of the Wizard Clip (Smithfield, W. Va.): A Monograph

Joseph M. Finotti
Baltimore: Kelly, Piet and Company, 1879

91A97

Cradle from the McSherry Family

Cradle from the McSherry Family

Maker unknown
Wood

18th century

1111.1.6492

An excerpt from The Mystery of the Wizard Clip, which describes decades of strange goings-on where the family’s farm was located:

Mrs McSherry was frightened one day by hearing the cradle rock violently,
having in it her infant son William, whilst no one was near it; she called her
husband to witness the fact, and started to run to it, fearing lest her child
should be thrown out against the wall, but he would not allow her, saying
“God is more powerful than the devil”--and the infant was not hurt. And
Mr L. told those parents the Voice had told him to tell them “It was the
Devil who was trying to destroy the Child.”

This cradle belonged to the family of Rev. William McSherry, S.J. and it is believed he slept in it as an infant. McSherry served as superior of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus from 1833 to 1837 and was then appointed President of Georgetown College. With Thomas Mulledy, S.J., he organized the 1838 sale of 272 enslaved people owned by the Maryland Province. The bulk of the down payment from the sale was applied to Georgetown College’s significant building debt. Details of the University’s efforts to engage and reconcile with this history can be read in the Report of The Working Group on Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation to the President of Georgetown University, Summer 2016.

La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte II, Enrique Chagoya

La Portentosa Vida de la Muerte II

The Ominous Life of Death II

Enrique Chagoya
Lithograph on paper

2008

20/30

Art Collection purchase
2012.5.1

The Witches' Dance, Fritz Eichenberg

The Witches' Dance

Fritz Eichenberg
Wood engraving on paper

1981

8/50

Art Collection purchase
1986.4.13.9

At the Master's Grave, Hugo Steiner-Prag

At the Master’s Grave

Hugo Steiner-Prag
Lithograph on paper

1916

Gustav Meyrink
Der Golem

Leipzig: Kurt-Wolff Verlag, 1916

Art Collection purchase
2018.27.1.2

Farmer with Grey Meg Brock, William Strang

The Earth-Fiend, A Ballad

Farmer with Grey Meg Brock

William Strang
Etching on paper

1892
ed. 150

William Strang
The Earth-Fiend, a Ballad

London: Elkin Mathews & John Lane, 1892

Art Collection purchase
1997.7.6

Michan to Onibaba, Chris Young

Ogre in the Forest

Chris Young
Etching on paper

ed. 88
 

Chris Young and Day Christensen
Michan to Onibaba (Michan and the Ogre Women)

Pleasant Grove, Utah: Wormwood Press, 1997

1111.1.582

Phantasmagoria, James Gillray

A Phantasmagoria; - Scene - Conjuring up an Armed Skeleton

James Gillray
Etching with aquatint on paper

1801-1806

1111.1.6485.4

Una Pelea Cubana Contra los Demonios

Una Pelea Cubana Contra los Demonios

Cuban Fight Against the Demons

Antonio Pérez (Ñiko)
Screenprint/serigraph on paper

ca. 1990

Art Collection purchase
2008.10.513

Director William Friedkin on the set of “The Exorcist”

Director William Friedkin on the set of “The Exorcist”

Clifford Chieffo
Photographic print on paper

1973 (printed later)

Gift of Clifford Chieffo
GTA-000824

Protest Scene being Filmed on Campus

Photographer unknown
Gelatin silver photographic print on paper

1973 (printed later)

GTA-000824

Scene from The Exorcist

Actors Lee J. Cobb and Jason Miller behind the Scenes

Photographer unknown
Gelatin silver photographic print on paper

1973 (printed later)

GTA-000824

Malleus Maleficarum

Heinrich Kramer
Letterpress with hand coloring on paper
ca. 1490

Peter Drach, publisher, ca. 1490

BF 1569 .A2 I5 1490 Vault

The Devils of Loudoun, Aldous Huxley

The Devils of Loudoun

Aldous Huxley
New York: Barnes & Noble Books, 1952

Woodstock Theological Library
235.5 H982, D42

By the Finger of God, S. Vernon McCasland

By the Finger of God

S. Vernon McCasland
New York: The Mac Millan Company, 1951

Woodstock Theological Library
235.5 M128

Possession, Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich

Possession: Demoniacal & Other

Traugott Konstantin Oesterreich
New Hyde Park, NY: University Books, 1966

Woodstock Theological Library
235.5 OE8, P8

Angst

The Last State, Charles Klabunde

The Last State

Charles Klabunde
Etching on paper

1984
49/25

Samuel Beckett and Charles Klabunde
The Lost Ones

Stamford: New Overbrook Press, 1984

Bequest of Mona Dingle
2010.1.93.7

Frieze of the Prophets, Timothy Cole

Frieze of the Prophets (Zephaniah, Joel, Obadiah, Hosea)

Timothy Cole after John Singer Sargent
Wood engraving on paper

1896

Art Collection purchase
1995.8.8

Dulac and Poe-1

Dulac and Poe-2

Frontispiece and Title Page

Edmund Dulac
Commercial/offset printing on paper

Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells and Other Poems

New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912

The Irving Levy Collection
PS 2607 .A1 1910z

Sea Grave, Dorothy Stratton King

Sea Grave

Dorothy Stratton King
Etching with hand coloring on paper

1986

A/P

Gift of Heather Hicks-Beach
2000.34.3

Werdende Welt, Fritz Schwimbeck

Werdende Welt

Unfolding Universe

Fritz Schwimbeck
Etching with aquatint on paper

ca. 1920

XIII/XV

Gift of Murray Lebwohl
1993.29.6.2

Amor, Tod und Jenseits, Max Klinger

Amor, Tod und Jenseits

Cupid, Death and the Beyond

Max Klinger
Etching on paper

1881

Gift of Ingrid Rose in memory of Milton M. Rose
2018.4.16.12

The Erl-King, Letterio Calapai

The Erl-King

Letterio Calapai
Aquatint on paper

1950

4/10

Art Collection purchase
1977.2.6

Carcere, Piranesi-1

Carcere, Piranesi-2

Carcere (Prison)

Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Etching with engraving on paper
1835 - 1839

Le Antichita Romane
Parigi: da’ Torchi de’ Fratelli Firmin Didot Libraj, 1835-1839

Gift of William Doniger in memory of Katherine Dimock Doniger
DG63 .P56 1835

Acknowledgments

Curated by Christen E. Runge, Assistant Curator, University Art Collection