Design drawing for stained glass window, Flight into Egypt – Vintage Print
(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 Design drawing for stained glass window, Flight into Egypt, a historic drawing rich in period detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Design drawing for stained glass window, Flight into Egypt
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The Flight into Egypt is the subject here, a scene from the Gospel of Matthew in which Joseph takes Mary and the infant Jesus south to escape Herod's threat. A design drawing like this one was the working plan a glass artist followed before cutting any colored glass, so the composition, figure placement and lead-line divisions were settled on paper first. Stained glass windows of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries often drew on such Gospel episodes, and the travelers' journey offered designers a natural subject for landscape, a donkey and figures in motion. Looking closely at the drawing shows how the artist balanced narrative detail against the practical limits of a window's panels.
| Original scan | 6,504 × 8,483 px · prints to 22 × 28 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | tif10796_Designdrawingforstainedglasswi |
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