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Melencolia I
Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1514
Medium/Technique
Engraving
Dimensions
Sheet: 24.2 × 19 cm (9 1/2 × 7 1/2 in.)
Credit Line
Anonymous gift
Accession Number59.805
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsEurope, Prints and Drawings
ClassificationsPrints
Catalogue Raisonné
Bartsch (intaglio) 074; Meder 75 (II b-c/II)
Signed
Signed and dated in plate, lower right: 1514/[Dürer's monogram]
Marks
No watermark; verso, collector's stamp in black ink: C.S.B [Charles S. Bale; Lugt 640]; in graphite: a35240
InscriptionsInscribed in plate, upper left, on the underside of the bat's wings: MELENCOLIA I
ProvenanceCharles Sackville Bale (b. 1791 - d. 1880; Lugt 640), London. Francis Bullard (b. 1862 – d. 1913; Lugt 982), Boston; by descent to his cousin, Ellen T. Bullard (b. 1865- d. 1959), Boston; 1959, anonymous gift from the legatees of Ellen T. Bullard to the MFA. (Accession Date: November 12, 1959)