An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Curios the wood is still solid

the wood is still solid

The use of reliquaries became an important part of Christian practices from at least the 4th century and provided a means of protecting and displaying relics

nails or hair burned or heated for the purpose of repelling or breaking a witches’ power over her victim

The original plate glass is nicely foxed with an even spread to the whole plate

after his very early death

An Interesting English Naïve School Oil on Panel of an Imprisoned Man with Wildcats c.1825-35 sub-Curios the wood is still solidOrigin: English Period: Early 19thC Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1825 35 Height: 11 Width: 14. 5 Depth: 0. 75 The primitive and naive depiction in oils on thick rough hewn oak panel, showing a young man in period dress slumped to the floor and detained in a prison cell, with a lion to one flank and with his arm around a tiger to the other. with its young, the tiger licking his face, the whole surviving from the second quarter of the nineteenth