https://european-mastectomy.artinterp.org/files/original/1a2ff2fb5037822e39b8c71d3189a5d1.jpg dec5ec483e35c8e6043b93d3ce719883 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Caricatures Physical Object An inanimate, three-dimensional object or substance. Note that digital representations of, or surrogates for, these objects should use Moving Image, Still Image, Text or one of the other types. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Melancholy Subject The topic of the resource The melancholy temperament: an anxious woman clasps her hands as an agitated man lies on the ground. Engraving by R. Sadeler, 1583, after M. de Vos. Description An account of the resource The lettering mentions sleep disorders, anxiety, fear and violence. The man appears to be reaching for a beer jug; broken crockery and furniture lie on the ground. In the background, two performers (one holding scales, the other possibly a snake) stand on a podium, apparently quacks in a medicine show. Three astrological symbols form an arc in the sky 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. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Wellcome https://wellcomecollection.org/works/k8x8cn4z Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available [Paris] : P. Mariette ex, [between 1600 and 1699] Relation A related resource Anouk Janssen, Grijsaards in zwart-wit: de verbeelding van de ouderdom in de Nederlandse prentkunst (1550-1650), Zutphen 2007, p. 73, fig. 9 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") adam and eve melancholy performance quacks tools