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Image / Ethiopian painting of Saint George killing a dragon, Ethiopia, ca.1900-1930

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Title
Ethiopian painting of Saint George killing a dragon, Ethiopia, ca.1900-1930
Date Created and/or Issued
1900/1930
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
Divinity.Library@yale.edu
Yale University Divinity School Library, 409 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511
Yale University. Divinity School. Day Missions Library
http://web.library.yale.edu/divinity/copyright-and-permissions
Description
"17 - MISSION D'ABYSSINIE - Peinture d'Eglise - Saint-Georges terrassant le dragon." ("Church Painting - Saint-George striking down the dragon.") A photograph of a painting in which a man holding a shield and two spears rides a white horse over an anthropomorphic creature with spiked hair and a pointed tongue. The rider has pierced the creature with a spear.
The back of the postcard is blank.
Type
image
Format
photographic postcards, 14 x 9 cm.
photographs
Identifier
impa-m12719 [Legacy record ID]
IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0059
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-m12719
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/IMP-YDS-RG101-006-0000-0059.jpg
Subject
Religious art
General views
Time Period
1900/1930
Place
(city)
Africa
Ethiopia
Source
YDS/RG101/006/0000/0059 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Missionary Postcard Collection
Photographs from the Yale Divinity School Library, New Haven, Connecticut, ca.1880-1950
Yale Divinity Library Special Collections
impa-m980

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