Object Details
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- The winged figure of a woman, dressed in a long robe, is seated at right; she rests her head on her left hand and holds a compass in her right. A winged genius is seated beside her, writing on a tablet. Behind them is a square tower that displays a scale, an hourglass, a bell and a magic square. The foreground is littered with various instruments related to carpentry and construction: a saw, a plane, a hammer and nails and lengths of wood. At left, a dog sleeps curled between a sphere and a polyhedron. In the distance, in front of a sunset and rainbow over the sea, a bat flies, the word "Melencolia I" engraved across its outstreched wings. Monogram of Dürer and date 1541, lower right.
- Data Source
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Print Maker
- Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528
- Date
- 1514
- Credit Line
- Bequest of George Campbell Cooper
- Medium
- Engraving on off-white laid paper
- Dimensions
- 23.8 x 18.5 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)
- Type
- figures
- Object Name
- Type
