Melencolia (Melancholy)
1539
Artist, German, 1500 - 1550

Artwork overview
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Medium
engraving
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
plate: 7.8 x 5.1 cm (3 1/16 x 2 in.)
sheet: 8.1 x 5.4 cm (3 3/16 x 2 1/8 in.) -
Accession
1943.3.1077
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Catalogue Raisonné
New Hollstein, no. 148, State iv/vi
Artwork history & notes
Exhibition History
1966
Masters of Etching and Engraving from the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL, 1966, no. 22.
1969
Symbols in Transformation: Iconographic Themes at the Time of the Reformation, Princeton University Art Museum, 1969, no. 20, repro.
Bibliography
1901
Pauli, Gustav. Hans Sebald Beham: ein kritisches Verzeichnis seiner Kupferstiche, Radierungen und Holzschnitte. Studien zur deutschen Kunstgeschichte_ 33. Strasbourg: J.H. Ed. Heitz, 1901: no. 145, iv/vi.
1996
The New Hollstein German Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, 1400-1700. (Sebald Beham, Anne Röver-Kann, author). Ouderkerk aan den Ijssel: Sound & Vision Publishers, 2024: no. 148, iv/vi.
Wikidata ID
Q64961461