Melencolia I
date: label: Date
content: 1514
name: label: Print Maker
content: Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: 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.
place: label: made in
content: Germany
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Drawings, Prints, and Graphic Design Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Bequest of George Campbell Cooper
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1896-3-28
objectType: label: Type
content: figures
label: Object Name
content: Print
label: Type
content: Print
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Engraving on off-white laid paper
label: Dimensions
content: 23.8 x 18.5 cm (9 3/8 x 7 5/16 in.)