About this work
The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a ship
Original catalogue wording
1. The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a ship | 2. The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemies | 3. The rich man standing next to a small statue of himself in front of the icon of the Virgin and Child
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The rich man from Qʷalāsis travelling with his companions on a shipPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How the rich Greek man went by boat to the land of Tərkwə in order to fight them
- 022. The rich man fallen after his eye has been pierced by arrows from a group of enemiesPosition recorded by PEMM: top
How the rich Greek man was shot with arrows; The Qwəz men who fought the rich man and one shot him with an arrow
- 033. The rich man standing next to a small statue of himself in front of the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How the arrows fell from the eye of the statue and from the eye of the rich man in that same moment. And the rich man was healed from all his injuries at once; The waxen statue; Rich Greek man
- 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
- 92v
- 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 1812 (3 episode rows)