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 mother of the blind daughter; The blind girl
- 022. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girlPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom
How the mother and daughter slept; How our Lady awakened her
- 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 she opened her eyes with her milk
- Source date
- 1632-1667
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from king's name”.
- Holding institution
- University of Hamburg
- Shelfmark
- DD-001
- Folio
- 52v
- Recorded provenance
- Dabra Dāmmo ʾAbuna ʾAragāwi
- 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 1522 (3 episode rows)