The Flight into Egypt (Plate 8)
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Title
The Flight into Egypt (Plate 8)
Description
The flight into Egypt. The Virgin seen riding a donkey side-saddle with the infant Christ in her lap; Joseph leading the way on foot, his hand resting on the neck of the donkey; a small golden statue seen on a tree, to right (the sun?); in the background, to left, men harvesting and Herod's soldiers in horseback.
Engraving with contemporary colouring
Engraving with contemporary colouring
Publisher
Gerard de Jode
Date
1585
Rights
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
Relation
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1968-1018-1-237
Format
engraving
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
engraving
Citation
“The Flight into Egypt (Plate 8),” The Little Gidding Harmonies, accessed November 17, 2024, https://digitalbookhistory.com/littlegidding/items/show/1084.