About this work
The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene
Original catalogue wording
1. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scene | 2. The painter falling down from the scaffold | 3. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painter | 4. A group of demons look on
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The painter sitting on a scaffold and drawing a scenePosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How the painter painted the garden, the residence of the saints, and the fires of Sheol, the residence of the devil and his hosts; The residence of the saints
- 022. The painter falling down from the scaffoldPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How the painter was knocked down from the scaffolding
- 033. The icon of St Mary, who extends her hand to save the painterPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How our Lady raised up the painter
- 044. A group of demons look onPosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
Sheol, the residence of demons
- Source date
- 17th
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from JRB and SGD”.
- Holding institution
- British Library
- Shelfmark
- 639
- Folio
- 67r
- Recorded provenance
- South: Looted from Madḫāne ʿĀlam Church at መቅደላ Mäqdäla Magdala, Tewodros II collected manuscripts from all the country, so provenance prior to this unknown
- Place evidence
- Place recorded or purchased, as stated by the source. It is not treated as the place of production.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1677 (4 episode rows)