About this work
St Mary giving the dog water to drink from her shoe
Original catalogue wording
2. St Mary giving the dog water to drink from her shoe | 1. The group of virgins gathered around the well while one of them chases away the thirsty dog
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 012. St Mary giving the dog water to drink from her shoePosition recorded by PEMM: left
How our Lady Mary gave a drink of water to a thirsty dog where she went out to draw water with the virgins of the temple
- 021. The group of virgins gathered around the well while one of them chases away the thirsty dogPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
The virgins of the temple, fetchers of water who drove away that thirsty dog; The pitchers; The virgins; How she struck the dog; The well of water
- Source date
- 1721-1730
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 7606
- Folio
- 172v
- Recorded provenance
- not given on vHMML
- 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 1424 (2 episode rows)