D VLUCHT VAN EGYPTE - Nieuwe Alings Voorburgwal 29
In his book Amsterdamse steensteensteenen (second print, 1949, pages 38-39) the author observes H.W. Alings on that at that time no gable stones could be found on the public road with the Flight to Egypt.
In 1961, however, he was able to report in Ons Amsterdam that another Flight had appeared on the public road, the stone DE VLUCH VA EGIPTEN from Westerstraat 40, who in that year was cemented with seven other biblical representations in the wall at the Begijnhof.
The newly beautifully refurbished stone D VLUGHT VAN EGYPTEN, Nieuwe Alings Voorburgwal 29 did not know Alings.
Alings died in 1965 and the stone from Egelantiersstraat 159 was bricked in here in 1990.
Alings describes extensively after the Flight to Egypt the beautiful stone with the "return" from Egypt from Beguinage 19.
He assumes that the representation on the stone is the representation of the text UYT EGYPTS HEBBE IK / MYNEN SON CALLED (Matthew 2:15).
Alings, and all later descriptors of the plaque, including the undersigned did not, however, consider that when the Holy Family returned from Egypt, the child was a boy of about 5 or 6 years old, old enough to walk by himself. On the facing brick, however, the child is a baby wrapped in cloth in his mother's arms, just like on the two stones with the flight to Egypt.
We therefore read in the Iconographic handbook of Hall (Leiden 1993) that the return from Egypt is a theme that is depicted in the same way as the "flight to Egypt", but can be recognized by the age of the Child, who is no longer an infant but a boy, and that the Holy Family goes on foot.
The painting "The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt" from Jacob Jordaens from ca. 1616 (Gemäldegalerie Berlin) the two caring parents, walking in between them the plm. 5 to 6 year old boy, as can also be seen in a print after Lucas Vostermans from 1620.
On the facing brick Beguinage 19 is clearly not the return from Egypt, but the flight to Egypt has been proposed
