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: right
The virgins of the temple, fetchers of water who drove away that thirsty dog; the jars of the virgins; How the girl struck the thirsty dog and drove it away from the water; The pitcher
- Source date
- 18th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France)
- Shelfmark
- 55
- Folio
- 80v
- Recorded provenance
- Gondar
- 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 1430 (2 episode rows)