St. Dominic's Press.- Cribb (Herbert Joseph) S. Gertrude, watercolour

St. Dominic's Press.- Cribb (Herbert Joseph) S. Gertrude, watercolour over pencil on paper, initialled and dated by the artist in ink, approx. 220 x 145 mm, a few scattered spots, light creasing, window-mounted, framed and glazed, [Ditchling, East Sussex], [1930]. *** Devotional image of Saint Gertrude meditating on St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Gertrude of Nivelles, a seventh-century abbess and founder of the Abbey of the Nivelles, is often depicted, as here, with a shepherd's crook, and sometimes adorned with a mouse or rat, in recognition of her assumed protection against the infestation of the Black Plague.

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