Title: Allegory on Melancholy, with a woman kneeling towards the left holding a skull
Object type: Print
Date: 1729–40
Artist:  Henri Simon Thomassin 
Artist bio: French, Paris 1687–1741
Artist nationality: French
Artist role: Artist
Medium: Etching and engraving
Dimensions: Plate: 17 1/8 × 10 11/16 in. (43.5 × 27.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 7/8 × 15 3/16 in. (53.1 × 38.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Harry G. Friedman, 1960
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Skulls, term: Women, term: Dogs, term: Globes, term: Allegory