print
- Museum number
- E,1.35
- Description
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The Flight into Egypt; the Virgin and Child on a donkey facing right on a path in a wooded landscape, with five angels in a date palm bending the branches towards Joseph who reaches out for a date, and three lizards left foreground. c.1470-74
Engraving, gilded on the edges
- Production date
- 1470-1474
- Dimensions
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Height: 255 millimetres
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Width: 169 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Watermark: bull's head with a star.
This print was issued as a black and white facsimile by the British Museum in 'Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, Reproduced by Photographic Process', [First Series] Part III (German Prints), Published by the Trustees in 1884, where it was number XXIV and described there as 'Martin Schongauer. About 1470 - 1488.'; (Shelfmark 245*.b.14).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2006 Feb-June, Beijing, Capital Museum, 'BM Treasures...'
2007 Feb-June, Taipei, National Palace Museum, 'BM Treasures...'
2007 Sep-Dec, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 'BM Treasures...'
- Acquisition date
- 1799
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- E,1.35