Art, Symbol & Imagination
The Flight into Egypt
A woman holding an infant rides a donkey led by a man with a staff. The small travelling group crosses open ground beneath an almost empty pale sky. The caption identifies the flight into Egypt. Doré reduces the scene to a family, an animal and the necessities of movement, allowing the long horizon to make their journey feel exposed. The donkey's steady posture contrasts with the woman's protected hold around the child. The plate's restraint gives migration and shelter a visible form without adding a pursuing army or a dramatic celestial spectacle.
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Gustave Doré (design). "The Flight into Egypt" [editorial title]. In The Bible Gallery, Gustave Dore; Talbot W. Chambers. Undated Cassell & Company edition; one hundred illustrations with supplied descriptive letterpress, undated edition, Cassell & Company, Limited. Source scan leaf 245. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/bible-dore-244
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Original source design and caption inspected; composition retained with scan margins trimmed. No reconstructed or recoloured details.
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Gustave Doré (design). The Flight into Egypt. The Bible Gallery. Scan leaf 245. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/bible-dore-244