Christ Carrying the Cross
1471 - 1528
Albrecht Dürer
German
The engraving was hand-colored by Georg Mack the Elder circa 1588 (initialed "GM" in gold). The recto border of the vellum mount is decorated with a scroll of tiger lilies and blue flowers and a bird above and a grasshopper below. The verso has a German manuscript text in brown ink and gold relating to the Suffering of Christ, and the border is decorated with a scroll of red and pink carnations, a different flower above, a pheasant, an ant, a snail and a quail.
Engraving, hand-colored with watercolor, opaque watercolor, and gold and silver on cream antique laid paper, adhered to a decorated vellum mount; verso of mount: decorated border, with German manuscript text in brown ink and gold