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The Flight into Egypt, by Burne-Jones

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An image of The Flight into Egypt. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Watercolour and black ink over graphite, on two sheets each with trefoil cusped top, and pasted on to a card with decorated borders in watercolour, height, each sheet, 155 mm, width, each sheet, 132 mm; height, card size, 226 mm, width, card size, 355 mm, 1862. Notes: Stained glass designs for The church of Saints Michael and all Angels, Brighton.

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The Flight into Egypt. Burne-Jones, Edward (British, 1833-1898). Watercolour and black ink over graphite, on two sheets each with trefoil cusped top, and pasted on to a card with decorated borders in watercolour, height, each sheet, 155 mm, width, each sheet, 132 mm; height, card size, 226 mm, width, card size, 355 mm, 1862. Notes: Stained glass designs for The church of Saints Michael and all Angels, Brighton.

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  • Accession Number: 720
  • Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
  • Aperture: f/19.0
  • Focal length: 80
  • Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
  • Photographer name: Andrew Norman
  • Image height: 582 pixels
  • Image width: 1024 pixels
  • Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
  • Filesize: 888.00kB
  • Exposure time: 1/125
  • ISO Speed: 100
  • Fnumber: 19/1
  • Captured: 2017:02:08 16:41:07

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