The Deposition, from: The Engraved Passion (B., M., Holl. 15; S.M.S. 57)

Albrecht Dürer and Georg Mack the Elder The Deposition, from: The Engraved Passion (B., M., Holl. 15; S.M.S. 57) 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 red lilies, an owl, a beetle, two snakes and a rabbit, verso with a German manuscript text in brown ink and gilt relating to the Suffering of Christ, the border decorated with an oak scroll and lilies of the valley above, a dragonfly, a squirrel, a bird's nest, a fox, a hound, a hoopoe and a green woodpecker, in very good condition 4 11/16 x 2 7/8 in. (119 x 75 mm.) (prints) 6 7/8 x 5 1/16 in. (174 x 129 mm.) (vellum sheet)