About this work
A church amongst the waves from which the people are fleeing
Original catalogue wording
1. A church amongst the waves from which the people are fleeing | 2. The woman holding her new-born child protected by St Mary from the water | 3. The woman with her child surrounded by the marvelling people
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. A church amongst the waves from which the people are fleeingPosition recorded by PEMM: top-left
How the people fled fearing the rising water
- 022. The woman holding her new-born child protected by St Mary from the waterPosition recorded by PEMM: right
How our Lady Mary covered her with the garment of light in the midst of the waves and she helped to like a midwife until she bore a son in the midst of the waves
- 033. The woman with her child surrounded by the marvelling peoplePosition recorded by PEMM: bottom-left
How those people spoke to that pregnant woman, "How were you in the midst of the waves of the sea?"
- 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
- 137r
- 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 1835 (3 episode rows)