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Red-toned print of a veiled female profile in an oval medallion, labeled MELPOMENE, after Johannes Wiedewelt, 1776.

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Why is this public domain? Johannes Wiedewelt died in 1802; this work is in the public domain.

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A red-chalk style print shows a woman in profile with eyes lowered, her hair waved beneath a deeply folded veil, set within an oval medallion. The name MELPOMENE is engraved below the image, with the artist's inscription Wiedewelt inv. and engraver's name in the lower corners. The work is a print dated 1776 by Johannes Wiedewelt.