18th/19th C Large Carved San Roque Santos (Repaired Head) painting of leopard and a split in the

and a split in the wood down the right side

and there's a great ink drawing just inslde plus a pencil drawn portrait on a blank page at the end

There in one small surface chip on one of the handles mid-way down

this little head

18th/19th C Large Carved San Roque Santos (Repaired Head) painting of leopard and a split in theThis carved santos is old I'm not an expert but might guess 18th rather than 19th and though he lost his head once along the way, his expressively carved hands are, rather miraculously, in pretty much perfect shape, one of them raised, the other at his knee with index finger pointing south. I am pretty certain he is meant to represent San Roque Saint Roch (patron saint of the sick, the wrongly accused, and dogs), who recovered from the plague, and is