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: Sheet (Trimmed): 16 9/16 × 10 1/8 in. (42 × 25.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1951
Department: Drawings and Prints
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Skulls, term: Women, term: Dogs, term: Allegory