Albrecht Durer, Melancholia, engraving, 18 x 24 cms, dated 1514.

Linley Sambourne uses Durer's great Melancholia print as a basis to project the political problems endured by France, in the shape of Marianne. Punch April 29th 1893, p.194 18 x 24cms; The bomb reflects Anarachist 'Outrages ' in the capital,and the War Dog (and grindstone) "La Revanche" conjures the spectre of excessive French nationalism threatening German interests.

James Barry in the standard melancholy pose for his self-portrait, mezzotint, begun 1802, and measuring 25 x 35 cms.

titlepage to Richard Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy , Oxford 1638.