The birth of the Virgin Mary, Anna receives refreshments from attendants while the midwife gives Mary her first bath. Woodcut after A. Dürer, 1503.

  • Dürer, Albrecht, 1471-1528.
Date:
1503
Reference:
17321i
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Publication/Creation

1503

Physical description

1 print : woodcut ; image 30 x 21.4 cm

Contributors

Related material

Select images of this work were taken by the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum: WT/D/1/20/1/120/96

Lettering

Some lettering is inscribed in ink and reads: "Albert Dürer Birth of the Virgin Life of the Virgin no. 5"

References note

Ed. W. Kurth, The complete woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, New York 1946, Pl. 178, p. 27

Reference

Wellcome Collection 17321i

Notes

One of a series of seventeen woodcuts on the 'Life of the Virgin' - executed between 1500-1505

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