print
- Museum number
- 1896,0203.3.14
- Title
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Object: De Fuga in Aegyptum Admonitio
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Series: Vita S. Ioseph B.mae Virginis Sponsi Patriarcharum Maximi
- Description
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An angel warns St Joseph of King Herod's massacre [Matthew 2:13]; interior of a barnhouse; the Holy Family are asleep; an angel points St Joseph to his wife and son; an ox grazes on hay behind; landscape background
Engraving and etching
- Production date
- 1600-1633 (c.)
- Dimensions
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Height: 89 millimetres
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Width: 53 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one from an incomplete series of twenty-two unnumbered scenes relating to the life of St Joseph, for comment see 1972,U.6.1.
For another impression see also 1972,U.6.15.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1896
- Acquisition notes
- An ex libris is pasted on the inside of the front cover, showing a crowned coat of arms charged with six floral devices, surmounted by an eagle holding a stalk of wheat in its beak
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1896,0203.3.14