About this work
The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sitting
Original catalogue wording
1. The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sitting | 3. The two other daughters standing next to the blacksmith | 2. The funeral of the eldest daugher, who is wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by persons
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The poor widow praying before the the icon of the Virgin and Child, below which her three daughters are sittingPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
Widow; Icon of our Lady Mary with her beloved Son; How the widow prayed to our Lady Mary concerning the poverty of her three daughters; These are the daughters of the widow, the first is Mary and the second is Martha and the third is Yawahit. Mary died.
- 023. The two other daughters standing next to the blacksmithPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How Tewog the craftsman received them and brought the daughters of the widow, Martha and Yawahit, to his house
- 032. The funeral of the eldest daugher, who is wrapped in a shroud and surrounded by personsPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How they buried Mary, the daugher of the widow, as our Lady said when she died
- 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
- 111v
- 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 1509 (3 episode rows)