About this work
The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Original catalogue wording
1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl | 3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
The woman whose name was Gera Anest, how she prayed before the icon of our Lady Mary with her blind daughter; The icon of our Lady Mary and her beloved son; The mother of the blind daughter
- 022. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girlPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom
How that woman slept beneath the feet of the icon of our Lady Mary with her blind daughter after she finished the prayer; How our Lady Mary awakened the blind daughter from her sleep
- 033. 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: top-right
How our Lady Mary opened the eyes of the blind girl with the milk of her breast
- 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
- 107v
- 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 1519 (3 episode rows)