Ultra Folky Antique "Las Cruz de Animas" Retablo Painting on Tin international bible lessons mended with a grid of

mended with a grid of cloth tape

I believe original to the piece

Roberts--but is quite out of keeping with the rest of her drawings

with what seems most likely to be a scroll held in hand

A lesson in love and power for the kids of the early 19th century

Ultra Folky Antique "Las Cruz de Animas" Retablo Painting on Tin international bible lessons mended with a grid ofThis to my sensibilities is a dream of a retablo, a very folky depiction of Las Cruz de Animas, or the Cross of Souls, representing Christ on the cross along with a group of animas sola below lonely souls surrounded by flames who are trapped in purgatory requiring the prayers of the living as well as the assistance of divine to release them to heaven. And this depiction is packed with both all of the (very excellent) usual symbols and then some, as