The melancholic figure of a poet leaning on an inscribed block of stone. Engraving by A.B., 16--, after J. de Ribera, ca. 1620.

  • Ribera, Jusepe de, 1591-1652.
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[between 1600 and 1699]
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33384i
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The melancholic figure of a poet leaning on an inscribed block of stone. Engraving by A.B., 16--, after J. de Ribera, ca. 1620. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Ribera's portrayal of a poet is said by W. Stechow to be "the first work of art to establish the connection between Poetry and Melancholy. His suggestion that the poet may be Petrarch is plausible" (Brown, ibid.)

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[Place of publication not identified] : [A.B. ex.], [between 1600 and 1699]

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1 print : engraving, with etching ; image 26.5 x 20.5 cm

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Ioseph Ribera espanol invent IHL 29 Jany 1831 Bears number: 1

References note

Wolfgang Stechow, 'Rembrandt-Democritus', Art quarterly, vii, 1944, 8
Jonathan Brown, Jusepe de Ribera: prints and drawings, Princeton 1973, p. 85, no. 333.i

Reference

Wellcome Collection 33384i

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The first in a collection of twelve engravings after Ribera's etchings published in the seventeenth century by a certain A.B. who remains unidentified (Brown, loc. cit.). He may be Abraham Blooteling of Amsterdam (1640-1690), as suggested in the catalogue of the Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid

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