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The Flight into Egypt
Rembrandtca. 1653
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University
Middletown, United States
Details
- Title: The Flight into Egypt
- Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
- Date Created: ca. 1653
- Signatures / Inscriptions: Watermark previously recorded as “circular crest, approximately 60 mm. diameter”; not matched with any mark in Ash and Fletcher’s Concordance. For student research on watermarks in the DAC’s Rembrandt holdings, using Nancy Ash and Shelley Fletcher’s concordance of Watermarks in Rembrandt’s Prints (Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 1998), see object file “Rembrandt Watermarks 2000.”
- Print State: Sixth of seven states
- Object Type: Prints, works of art
- Object Link: See this artwork on the Davison Art Center website
- Object Credit Line: Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University. Gift of George W. Davison (B.A. Wesleyan 1892), 1941
- Materials & Techniques: Etching, engraving, and drypoint on laid paper. Watermark: Legible fragment along top margin, consisting of a double-banded, nonparallel arc with writing or decoration between bands and stylized daisy shape below
- Keywords: Bible, landscapes (representations), New Testament, print states, religions, religious art
- Image Credit Line: Open Access Image from the Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University (http://www.wesleyan.edu/dac/openaccess)
- Dimensions: Plate dimensions: 212 mm x 281 mm (8.35 in. x 11.06 in.). Sheet dimensions: 216 mm x 286 mm (8.5 in. x 11.26 in.).
- Bibliography: Bartsch 56; Hind 266; White and Boon sixth of seven states
- Associated People: Created by Rembrandt van Rijn (Dutch, 1606-1669)
- Accession Number: 1941.D1.30
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