Wellcome Collection
A woman prays as a man sleeps drunkenly on the ground; allegory of the melancholy temperament. Engraving by R. Sadeler after M. de Vos.
Martin de Vos
Lettering: 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 Sadeler scalps. Antwerpiæ. P. Mariette ex.
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