About this work
The three Arabs swimming in the water
Original catalogue wording
1. The three Arabs swimming in the water | 2. One man being eaten by a crocodile | 3. The two others standing on a rock above the water
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The three Arabs swimming in the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
Three Arabs whom the sea wanted to drown
- 022. One man being eaten by a crocodilePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-center
How the crocodile swallowed the one of the three Arabs who ridiculed them; Crocodile
- 033. The two others standing on a rock above the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
Two Arabs who were saved from drowning and they stood on a rock
- Source date
- 1667-1706
- Date evidence
- The PEMM project records its date evidence as “Date from catalog”.
- Holding institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Shelfmark
- 2002.4
- Folio
- 85r
- Recorded provenance
- Originally sold to Sam Fogg, Sam Fogg Rare Books and Manuscripts, London, by 1998 [research report in curatorial file; Fogg and Hosking, 2001, no. 19]; sold to the Art Institute, 2002. Catalog by Getatchew Haile in PEMM Dropbox
- 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 1808 (3 episode rows)