"Mary's Walk in the Temple: An Original 1600 Engraving"

(1471 Nuremberg - 1528 also in the same place) "The Walk of Mary in the Temple". Original title of a woodcut on paper, mounted on Japanese paper, circa 1600. Signed with a monogram on the print. Sheet 6 (of 20) from the series "The Life of Mary" by Dürer. Condition g (according to Meder, edition without text) with a watermark, a shield with a diagonal line (M. WZ 246). Catalog Meder 193 g (of h), Schoch/Mende/Scherbaum 171. Trimmed to the borderline. Sheet 30.3 cm x 21.3 cm. Framed. According to the story from the apocryphal Gospel of James, three-year-old Mary is brought to the temple by her parents Joachim and Anna to fulfill a vow and entrust her to the care of the temple priests, under whose supervision she is to pray and study in the coming years. Dürer depicts Mary—noticeably older than three—at the center of the scene, as she separates from the astonished crowd and resolutely, with disheveled hair and without looking back, ascends the nine steps of the temple staircase. See literature: R. Schoch, M. Mende, and A. Scherbaum: Albrecht Dürer - The Graphic Work, Volume 2: Engravings and Woodcut Series, pp. 238 ff., Prestel Publishing, Munich 2002. Woodcut on paper, mounted on Japanese paper, circa 1600. Signed with initials on the print. Condition g with a watermark, a shield with a diagonal line (Meder 246). Trimmed to the borderline.