About this work
The two brothers and the Muslim customer gathered around a piece of cloth
Original catalogue wording
1. The two brothers and the Muslim customer gathered around a piece of cloth | 2. The Muslim kissing the head of Nazib | 3. The Muslim denouncing Nazib to the judge | 4. Nazib lying in prison bound at his hands and feet
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The two brothers and the Muslim customer gathered around a piece of clothPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How the Muslim asked the two brothers to dye cloth for him
- 022. The Muslim kissing the head of NazibPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How the Muslim kissed the head of Näzib when he dyed the cloth for him
- 033. The Muslim denouncing Nazib to the judgePosition recorded by PEMM: top-right
How he spoke to him and the Muslim accused Näzib to Qadi; The Muslim
- 044. Nazib lying in prison bound at his hands and feetPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How Qadi placed Näzib in prison
- 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
- 106v
- 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 1818 (4 episode rows)