Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin antique tramp art box 15/16" thick

15/16" thick

but certainly it would hold a great weight

I've figured out that this is a portrait of the "Daughter of Tecumseh

Three of the four I have are in great condition

and for me at least it carries a very different sort of weight

Santa Rita de Cascia with Skull, 19th C. Spanish Colonial Retablo on Tin antique tramp art box 15/16" thickDepicted in this 19th c. retablo on tin is Santa Rita de Cascia born Margherita Ferri Lotti Mancini (13811457) a window turned Augustinian nun canonized as the patroness of impossible causes and also known in many Catholic countries as patroness of abused wives and heartbroken women. (Rita apparently endured endured the physical and psychological abuse and infidelities of her nobleman husband Paolo Mancini for many years.) I love her for those