Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti.

  • Fetti, Domenico, approximately 1589-1623.
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Melancholia: a female figure contemplating a skull, surrounded by attributes of knowledge and learning. Engraving after D. Fetti. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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1 print : line engraving with etching

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References note

See further: R. Klibansky, E. Panofsky and F. Saxl, Saturn and melancholy, London 1964
S.W. Jackson, Melancholia and depression, Michigan 1986
Sir A. Lewis, The state of psychiatry, London 1967, ch. 7. 'Melancholia: a historical review', p. 71

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Wellcome Collection 20080i

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There are two versions of the painting upon which this print is based, one is in Venice, Accademia, and the other in the Louvre

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