The flight into Egypt / lith. & pub. by J. Baillie. – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with The flight into Egypt / lith. & pub. by J. Baillie., an antique lithograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The flight into Egypt / lith. & pub. by J. Baillie.
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Joseph, Mary, and the infant Jesus make their way toward Egypt in this hand-colored lithograph, the subject taken from the Gospel of Matthew, where an angel warns Joseph to flee Herod's threat. The print was issued around 1847 and bears the publisher's line "lith. & pub. by J. Baillie" along with the number 281. Lithography made religious images like this one affordable for households and Sunday schools in the 1840s, and the hand coloring, applied to each sheet by hand, shows how such prints were finished to look more precious than their printed outlines alone.
| Created / published | c1847. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, hand colored. |
| Genre | Lithographs Hand colored 1840-1850. |
| Notes | No. 281. |
| Subjects | Joseph,--Saint--Journeys. Jesus Christ--Flight into Egypt. Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Journeys. Biblical events. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,140 × 1,458 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-217309 |
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