About this work
The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes
Original catalogue wording
3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes | 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 013. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyesPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
- 022. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girlPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
- Source date
- First half of 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 646
- Folio
- 33r
- Recorded provenance
- South: Looted from Madḫāne ʿĀlam Church at መቅደላ Mäqdäla Magdala, Tewodros II collected manuscripts from all the country, so provenance prior to this unknown
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1158 (2 episode rows)