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Melencolia I

Jan Wierix (Flemish, about 1549–after 1615)
After: Albrecht Dürer (German, 1471–1528)
1602

Medium/Technique Engraving
Dimensions Platemark: 23.8 x 18.8 cm (9 3/8 x 7 3/8 in.)
Sheet: 25 x 19.6 cm (9 13/16 x 7 11/16 in.)
Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Henry P. Kidder
Accession Number37.365
NOT ON VIEW
ClassificationsPrints

Catalogue Raisonné Alvin 1576; Mauquoy-Hendrickx 1556
Signed left of center lower margin: IOHAN.WIRICX.FECIT.ANN.1602
Marks verso, in graphite: [?]; MFA stamp with former accession number in graphite: 33722; [other inscriptions in graphite, but hidden under mount hinge]
Inscriptionsin plate, upper left, in banner formed by the wings of a dragon: MELENCOLIA I; on stone block, lower right: 1514/[Dürer's monogram]
ProvenanceMrs. Henry P. Kidder, Boston, MA, by whom given to the MFA April, 1937