Albrecht Dürer

1471–1528
Germany

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MELENCOLIA

1514

Third of the “Master prints”

Monogram and date 1514

Inscription:

MELENCOLIA I (Melancholy I)

Copperplate engraving

239×185 mm

Impression in the Museum collections

Before 1525

Second state with a corrected number 9 on a magic square

Watermark:
is unclear

Provenance:

J.H. Füssli’s collection;
N. Basnin’s collection;
Rumyantsev Museum since 1918;
in the Museum since 1924

Inv. Г-5207

Comments:

a silvery thin impression was made before the apparition of a scratch on the ball (М. 75, с)