Santo Niño de Atocha
Dateca. 1900
MediumTin, glass, paint
Dimensions27 1/2 x 22 1/2 in. (69.9 x 57.2 cm)
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Ward Alan Minge and Shirley Jolly Minge
Terms
Object numberPC1997.51.47
DescriptionTin frame with glass by the Isleta Tinsmith, with a painted Mexican image of Santo Niño de Atocha. Rectangular, soldered, stamped, and embossed tin frame with four panels of reverse painted glass. There are four fan shaped corner pieces each constructed from a tin can. They are embossed with semi-circle lines of single dot punches, crescent shapes, and four dot rosettes. The upper side pieces are in a scrolled leaf shape with a single dot punch along the perimeter, two large embossed rosettes, and a cross design made from single dot punches. The top is a scrolled half lunette with a triangular pediment decoraed with raised and scored six pointed star, small and large embossed rosettes, and stamped single dot half circles. The perimeter is embossed with a singel dot line. The frame of the body is constructed of tin tin tubes that hold the four reverse painted glass panels. Each panel is painted in a red and green comb design with a blue background. The back of the frame is a single sheet of tin. Top and bottom pieces show the machine stamped ridges of a tin can bottom. Sitting in the frame is Mexican tin retablo of Santo Nino de Atocha. He is seated on a blue and gold chair wearing a purple robe with gold trim and a red over blouse with a white lace collar and green sash. He wears a white hat with red, white, and blue feathers. He carries a basket of roses in his proper left hand and a pilgrim's staff with a gourd in his right hand. The border of the retablo is painted with green curtains with red swags. There are yellow flower pots with flowers on either side of the figure on the bottom foreground.On View
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