Albrecht Durer (1471-1528), after - Flight into Egypt, from the series 'The Life of the Virgin'

Very good impression on laid paper.

Fourteenth plate from the series of 20 woodcuts printed by Hieronymus Höltzel in Nuremberg in 1511; showing the Flight into Egypt, within a dense wood, the Virgin and Child on a donkey, St Joseph on foot; on the left a date palm tree and a stag, on the top right a cloud with 15 angels

From the series: Life of the Virgin

After one of the 20 woodcuts in the series.

Bibliographic references
Meder 1932 / Dürer Katalog (201) (1511 Latin edition)(201)
Bartsch / Le Peintre graveur (VII.132.89)
Dodgson 1903, 1911 / Catalogue of Early German and Flemish Woodcuts in the BM, 2 vols (I.262.4)
Schoch 2001-04 / Albrecht Dürer, das druckgraphische Werk. 3 vols I Intaglio, II Woodcuts, III Book illustrations (II.179)

(Source: British Museum)

A 19th century engraving after the original woodcut printed in Leipzig in 1886.

Condition is good. Some foxing.