18th/19th C Large Carved San Roque Santos (Repaired Head) painting of leopard With kind regards to yourself

With kind regards to yourself and Mrs

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

and a split in the wood down the right side

and equally great on the reverse side

this little head

18th/19th C Large Carved San Roque Santos (Repaired Head) painting of leopard With kind regards to yourselfThis 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