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1 print : line engraving ; platemark 18.9 x 24.5 cm

Melancholicus. Anxius et niger est, timet omnia tristia, dormit, / Et violentus atro manat ab ore furor, / Insomnesque agitat violento examine curas: / Mole sua bilis quem nimis atra premit. M. de Vos inventor. Raphael Sadler scalps. Antuerpiæ.
]]> https://wellcomecollection.org/works/k8x8cn4z]]> ]]> Guy Tal, 'Skepticism and morality in Jacques de Gheyn II's Preparation for the witches' sabbath', Simiolus, 2022, 44: 5-27, p. 10 ("A figure with fingers intertwined became a standard signifier of melancholy")]]>