Above: St. Michael with Moses at the Burning Bush; Below: St. Michael instructs Moses to touch his staff to the Red Sea

Exhibitions Provenance Credit

Exhibitions

Angels of Light: Ethiopian Art from the Walters Art Museum. Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton; Museum of Biblical Art, New York. 2006-2007.

Provenance Gäbrä and Giyorgis Sellase [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Kidanä and Sählä Maryam [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Joseph Knopfelmacher Collection, New York, No. 2 [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Sale, Wright Gallery, New York, 1995-1996; Walters Art Museum, 1996, by purchase.

Credit Museum purchase with funds provided by the W. Alton Jones Foundation Acquisition Fund, 1996

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Creator

Zämänfäs Qeddus (Scribe)

Period

late 17th century (Gondarine)

Medium

ink and pigments on medium weight/quality parchment with yellowed edges
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.835.59R

Measurements

H: 10 x W: 9 1/16 in. (25.4 x 23 cm)

Geographies

Ethiopia, Gondar (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

The Archangel admonishing the idle man, continued	Title
late 17th century (early Gondarine)	Period
W.835.126R	Accession

The Archangel admonishing the idle man	Title
late 17th century (early Gondarine)	Period
W.835.125V	Accession

The Archangel helping Dorotheus and his wife Theopista to observe his feast	Title
late 17th century (early Gondarine)	Period
W.835.122V	Accession

The Archangel giving light to a blind man	Title
late 17th century (early Gondarine)	Period
W.835.119R	Accession

The Archangel casting an evil spirit from his church	Title
late 17th century (early Gondarine)	Period
W.835.117V	Accession