- Subject
- Print Collection
- Item type
- Object
- Makers
- Albrecht Durer
- Primary inscriptions
- Signed within the image '1514 A D' [= Albrecht Durer].
- Other inscriptions
- Pencil inscription on back: 'B VII = 76 = 60'.
- Physical material
- Paper
- Object type
- Inventory No
- 16725
Description
Durer's famous engraving is a dense allegorical composition featuring the saint at his desk with hiis recumbent lion in the foreground, and surrounded by numerous symbolic objects. See also 60252, 'Melencolia I', which is a companion work.
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