About this work
The widow's son stealing cloth from a church
Original catalogue wording
1. The widow's son stealing cloth from a church | 3. The widows son standing praying before the icon of St Mary | 2. St Mary ordering those who bound the widow's son to release him
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The widow's son stealing cloth from a churchPosition recorded by PEMM: left
How the son of the nun stole the cloth of the church and he went carrying it; The son of the nun, the thief
- 023. The widows son standing praying before the icon of St MaryPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
- 032. St Mary ordering those who bound the widow's son to release himPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How our Lady Mary showed with her finger to release the thief; How the men of the monastery seized that thief, the son of the nun, and they bound his hands and his feet
- 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
- 165v
- 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 1600 (3 episode rows)