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
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: bottom-left
How the son of the nun stole the cloth of the church and departed carrying it
- 023. The widows son standing praying before the icon of St MaryPosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-right
How that son of the nun, the thief, stood before the icon of our Lady Mary after he was released from his bonds
- 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
- 134r
- 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 1833 (2 episode rows)