Melancholy, 1602

  • Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471-1528
  • Johann Wierix, Netherlandish, 1549-1615

Engraving printed in black ink on laid paper

  • Plate: 9 3/8 × 7 3/8 inches (23.8 × 18.7 cm) Sheet: 45 1/2 × 7 3/8 inches (115.6 × 18.7 cm)

Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps

09.1S1255

Signed and dated, in plate below image: IOHAN. WIRICX. FECIT. ANN. 1602.

Watermark, lower left center: [obscured by image]

Inscribed, in plate, lower right edge of image: 1514 | [Durer's monogram] Inscribed, in brown ink, verso: à paris Chez Naudet W'au Louvre | 181(5 or 9) (Lugt 1937)

Mrs. James E. Scripps (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1909-present, gift to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Johann Wierix; after Albrecht Dürer, Melancholy, 1602, engraving printed in black ink on laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Gift of Mrs. James E. Scripps, 09.1S1255.