The Flight into Egypt, by Burne-Jones

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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