Mexican Ex Voto Sepia Ink Drawing --Saved from the Horrible Centipede! gifts for women The colors on this fan

The colors on this fan are very lush and the paper quite heavy

I found a trove of treasures at the estate sale of artist and gallerist Cynthia Numark Prelack

which I think is just there to keep it tight in absence of a washer

The box is pretty beaten up

and for good reason

Mexican Ex Voto Sepia Ink Drawing --Saved from the Horrible Centipede! gifts for women The colors on this fanI've seen a lot of old Mexican ex voto retablo paintings on tin, giving thanks to various saints for their divine interventions, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one executed as an ink drawing like this one, which was done in sepia colored ink. Perhaps it was done in advance of a painting, I'm not sure, but I'm very glad it exists as a drawing! The basic story, really wonderfully illustrated, with great attention paid to setting the scene (I especially