Christ in Limbo, from: The Engraved Passion (B., M., Holl. 16; S.M.S. 58)

Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder Christ in Limbo, from: The Engraved Passion (B., M., Holl. 16; S.M.S. 58) 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 flowers, four birds and a tortoise, verso with a German manuscript text in brown ink and gilt relating to the Entombment of Christ, the border decorated with a scroll of red lilies, a caterpillar, a butterfly, other insects and a duck, window-mounted on modern laid paper, in very good condition, framed 4 5/8 x 2 15/16 in. (117 x 74 mm.) (print) 6 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (175 x 129 mm.) (vellum sheet)