Portrait of a young woman with coiled plaited pinned-up hair (Catharina Fürleger?, 1646, BM E,2.5), Adam Alexius Bierling

Portrait of a young woman with coiled plaited pinned-up hair in a net seated half-length to right, with head tilted to right, looking towards the viewer; her arms crossed on a ledge, holding a thistle and two other small plant-stems; wearing a headdress and low-cut bodice; coat of arms of the fürleger family hanging from a nail at upper left, piece of paper above lettered with 'also bin ich gestalt / in achcehe jor altt. / 1497'; dürer's statue on a column on the side of the window behind, holding an open book lettered with dürer's monogram; fortified town seen through the window; after dürer; first state, before cross-hatching between her right arm and body. Date: 1646. Dimensions: height: 256 mm (10.07 in); width: 184 mm (7.24 in). Medium: etching print on paper. Depicted People: Catharina Fürleger. Collection: British Museum.