G8768: Melancholy III
Prints
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- G8768
- People
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Edvard Munch, Norwegian (Loiten, Norway 1863 - 1944 Ekely, Norway)
Printed by M. W. Lassally
- Title
- Melancholy III
- Other Titles
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Alternate Title: Melancholy (Evening)
Original Language Title: Melankoli III - Classification
- Prints
- Work Type
- Date
- 1901
- Culture
- Norwegian
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/278638
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3500, Special Exhibitions Gallery
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Woodcut printed from two blocks in black, orange, gray, and blue ink on thin off-white Japanese paper
- Technique
- Woodcut
- Dimensions
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key block: 37.5 × 47 cm (14 3/4 × 18 1/2 in.)
sheet: 46.7 × 64 cm (18 3/8 × 25 3/16 in.) - Inscriptions and Marks
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- inscription: lower sheet margin below right corner of image, graphite: Edv Munch
- inscription: lower margin, left corner of sheet, various graphite inscriptions: L[or S?] 144 / 1/3 L. 3 / Melancholie
- inscription: verso, lower left corner, graphite: 43
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collector's mark: verso, brown stamp with graphite numbering below:
GRAY COLLECTION, / HARVARD COLLEGE / 8768
[Gray Collection accession stamp (Lugt 1101)]
State, Edition, Standard Reference Number
- State
- Woll a.III.2
- Standard Reference Number
- Woll 203, Schiefler 144b
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gray Collection of Engravings Fund
- Object Number
- G8768
- Division
- European and American Art
- Contact
- am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- From Impressionism to the Bauhaus: German Master Prints from the Harvard Collection, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, 05/19/1981 - 06/29/1981
- 32Q: 3620 University Study Gallery, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 08/31/2019 - 01/08/2020; Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 09/04/2021 - 01/02/2022
- Edvard Munch: Technically Speaking, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 03/07/2025 - 07/27/2025
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