| A coloured woodcut (colours: pink, dark blue, yellow, green), either Netherlandish or from the Rhineland, dated c 1490-1500. Half-figures of the Virgin and Child are behind a sill upon which is an open book placed on a green cushion and a blue mitre. The crowned Virgin sits on the left with the naked Child on her knee under a damask canopy. She bares her breast which she squeezes with her right hand and sends a jet of milk towards Bernard. Bernard, in a white cowl over which he has a pink and gold cope fastened by a buckle in the form of a cross, kneels before her, his hands clasped in prayer and his crozier leaning against his left shoulder. A scroll above him has the words 'Monstra te esse matrem'. The scene is in a room with a window to the right at the back.
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