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Melencolia I
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Melencolia I

Artist: Albrecht Dürer (German, Nuremberg 1471–1528 Nuremberg)
Date: 1514
Medium: Engraving
Dimensions: plate 9-1/2 x 7-3/8 in. (24 x 18.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1943
Accession Number: 43.106.1
Not on view
Object Information Related Objects Online Resources Gallery Label Video Audio
  • Exhibition History

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Print in the North".

    The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection," April 29, 2014–July 14, 2014.

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Koehler 70ii; Schoch et al.I.179.71.iid

  • References

    Suzanne Boorsch, Nadine Orenstein "The Print in the North: The Age of Albrecht Durer and Lucas van Leyden." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. 54, no. 4, Spring 1997, p. 37.



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