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The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes — EMDA (HMML) 323

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library · 323

18th centuryManuscript paintingsPrinceton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project

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Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.

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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 | 1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child

Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.

Scenes and visual evidence

  1. 01
    3. 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: left
  2. 02
    1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: right
Source date
first half 18th
Date evidence
The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
Holding institution
Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
Shelfmark
323
Recorded provenance
Dimā Giyorgis Monastery
Place evidence
Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
Catalogue source
Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
Source record
paintings.csv, Painting ID 1162 (2 episode rows)