Title: Melencholia
Object type: Print
Date: ca. 1645–46
Artist:  Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) 
Artist bio: Italian, Genoa 1609–1664 Mantua
Artist nationality: Italian
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching, state undetermined, print trimmed on all sides
Dimensions: sheet: 8 3/16 x 4 1/2 in. (20.8 x 11.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1917
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Skulls, term: Contemplation, term: Women, term: Cats, term: Dogs, term: Globes