painting
- Museum number
- Af2005,05.25
- Description
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Painting in water based pigment on printed Italian military paper.Painting depicts two teams of men playing Genna an Ethiopia game traditionally played at Christmas. Above are four angels.
Verso; Christ seated at a table surrounded by his disciples (last supper ?). In the foreground, shown in profile is a man (Judas Iscariot ?)
Framed with paper mount.
- Production date
- 1940s(late)
- Dimensions
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Height: 39.80 centimetres
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Width: 30.20 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Previously part of a book of images used as models for mural paintings. These were made by an Ethiopian priest who was producing paintings and murals in the 1940s.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Acquisition notes
- "Acquired from a mural painter 1/2 Day's drive from Addis Ababa" from label found with paintings.
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Af2005,05.25
