print
- Museum number
- 1910,0212.303
- Title
- Object: Melencolia I
- Description
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Melancholia; a winged woman representing Melancholy wearing a wreath seated amongst numerous objects, including a bell, an hourglass, scales, and a magic square; a putto seated on a grindstone, next to a sleeping dog; in the background a flying bat, carrying a banner with the inscription 'Melencolia I'; in the foreground, carpenter tools and a sphere. 1514
Engraving
- Production date
- 1514
- Dimensions
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Height: 239 millimetres (trimmed to edge of image)
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Width: 185 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For recent lit, see P. Doorly, 'Dürer's Melencolia I: Plato's Abandoned Search for the Beautiful', Art Bulletin, June 2004, vol.lxxxvi, no.2, pp.255-276.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1910
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1910,0212.303
