About this work
The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child
Original catalogue wording
1. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and Child | 2. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girl | 3. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyes
Scene identification transcribed from the scene-summary field of the PEMM painting record.
Scenes and visual evidence
- 011. The woman and her blind daughter standing praying before the icon of the Virgin and ChildPosition recorded by PEMM: center
- 022. Both lying asleep before St Mary, who wakes up the girlPosition recorded by PEMM: left
- 033. The girl standing before the icon of St Mary, who takes out her breast and drops her milk into the girl's eyesPosition recorded by PEMM: right
- Holding institution
- Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Shelfmark
- 7366
- Folio
- 17v
- Recorded provenance
- Church of Gannata Māryām
- Place evidence
- Provenance wording supplied by the source catalogue.
- Catalogue source
- Princeton Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Egyptian Miracles of Mary (PEMM) project
- Source record
- paintings.csv, Painting ID 1940 (3 episode rows)