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The Flight into Egypt

The Flight into Egypt
 1613

Medium
etching and engraving
Measurements
29.2 × 38.7 cm (image) 34.9 × 38.7 cm (image and text) 35.0 × 39.0 cm (sheet, trimmed within platemark)
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Hollstein 3 (vol. VIII, p. 153); Le Blanc 3; Nagler p. 33; Dutuit 3; Wurzbach 3; Reitlinger 3
Inscription
printed in ink l.l.: Profugit in tenebris Lux mundi, et conditor orbis Rebus in aduersis exemplum Eine sumiti9 (NOTE: 9 = Latin abbreviation for ‘us’) Christi, / Exul apud Pharios latitat res miraj Tyrannos Quem semper tristi fortuna exereuit ira,
printed in ink l.c.l.: H. Goudt Palat. Comes, et Aur. Mil. Eques. 1613
inscribed in pen and brown ink l.c.: H. Goudt. 1610
Accession Number
1278.226-3
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1923
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Another Work Human Figures Religion and Mythology
Subjects (specific)
donkeys flight (escaping) Flight into Egypt (New Testament narrative) Holy Family (Christian theme) Nativity of Christ (New Testament narrative) night reproductive prints travellers (people by activity)
Movements
Baroque