About the Artwork
Melancholia
1539
Hans Sebald Beham
1500-1550
German
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Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper
Sheet (trimmed within plate mark): 3 1/8 inches × 2 inches (7.9 × 5.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Gift of Charles E. Feinberg in memory of Sarah Lambert Brown Nirenberg
F77.61
Public Domain
Markings
Signed, in plate, upper left: [artist's monogram]
Inscribed, in plate, upper edge: 1539 Inscribed, right upper edge: MELENCOLIA Inscribed, in pencil, verso: CRReusaler (?) | B 144 Inscribed, in pencil, lower left corner, verso: N. n. v. (?)
Provenance
Charles E. Feinberg;1977-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Nuremberg, A Renaissance City, 1500-1618. Exh. cat., Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery. Austin, 1983, no. 86 (ill.).
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Hans Sebald Beham, Melancholia, 1539, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Charles E. Feinberg in memory of Sarah Lambert Brown Nirenberg, F77.61.
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