An Interesting Mid 17thC Oil on Card Devotional Fragment Portrait of Christ c.1654 sub-Curios Looked soft as carded wool

Looked soft as carded wool

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Each: 14” x 3

An Interesting Mid 17thC Oil on Card Devotional Fragment Portrait of Christ c.1654 sub-Curios Looked soft as carded woolOrigin: English Period: Cromwellian Provenance: Unknown Date: c. 1654 The Portrait: 5. 5 x 4. 5 inches The Whole: in Frame: 10 x 8. 75 inches The mid 17th Century devotional fragment painted in oils on card with a gold ground, the now partial portrait of Christ, inscribed verso JE Talis (?) 74 and dated anno domo 1654, the whole presented in a glazed 19thC ebonised and giltwood frame survives from Cromwellian England. The portrait has become only a