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 'melancolia' engraved across its outstreched wings. Object Type: copper engraving print. Genre: allegory. Date: 1514. Place of creation: Nuremberg. Dimensions: height: 23.8 cm (9.3 in); width: 18.5 cm (7.2 in). Medium: engraving on off-white laid paper. Collection: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Print, Melancolia, 1514 (CH 18098021)
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