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Christ carrying the Cross, from: The Engraved Passion (B., M., Holl. 12; S.M.S. 54)
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Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder
Christ carrying the Cross, from: The Engraved Passion
(B., M., Holl. 12; S.M.S. 54)
engraving with watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold, 1512, trimmed to the subject and mounted on vellum, exquisitely handcoloured by Georg Mack around 1588 and initialled GM in gilt, the vellum border recto decorated with a scroll of tiger lillies and blue flowers above, and a bird and a grasshopper, verso with a German manuscript text in brown ink and gilt relating to the Suffering of Christ, the border decorated with a scroll of red and pink carnations, a different flower above, a pheasant, an ant, a snail and a quail, a brown stain at the lower sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition
4 11/16 x 2 15/16 in. (119 x 74 mm.) (print)
6 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (175 x 129 mm.) (vellum sheet)
Christ carrying the Cross, from: The Engraved Passion
(B., M., Holl. 12; S.M.S. 54)
engraving with watercolour and bodycolour heightened with gold, 1512, trimmed to the subject and mounted on vellum, exquisitely handcoloured by Georg Mack around 1588 and initialled GM in gilt, the vellum border recto decorated with a scroll of tiger lillies and blue flowers above, and a bird and a grasshopper, verso with a German manuscript text in brown ink and gilt relating to the Suffering of Christ, the border decorated with a scroll of red and pink carnations, a different flower above, a pheasant, an ant, a snail and a quail, a brown stain at the lower sheet edge, otherwise in very good condition
4 11/16 x 2 15/16 in. (119 x 74 mm.) (print)
6 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (175 x 129 mm.) (vellum sheet)
Literature
Susan Dackermann, Painted Prints - The Revelation of Color in Northern Renaissance & Baroque Engravings, Etchings and Woodcuts, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 2002-2003, exh. cat., cf. no. 46 (other examples illustrated.)
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