Council of War - Dolly McDougall for the East Anglian Puzzle Club
A lucky find at the recent BCD House Party. Bought unseen in a little cloth bag, it is beautifully line cut and quite challenging to put together. I found the edges and dark background ok but all the characters took some time to pull together .. I just couldn't figure out where the seated guy's crossed ankles fitted for quite some time!
|I thought it was going to be an English civil war scene featuring Charles I but it is actually a painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni (British artist, 1852-1913) titled "William, Prince of Orange and his Aides after Landing at Torbay, 5th November"( in 1688)
212 pieces
13.5" x 9.5"
rmg.co.uk tells me:
"The son of Charles I's daughter Mary, Prince William (1650-1702) married Mary, daughter of his cousin James, Duke of York, in 1677. James had by then already converted to Catholicism, which produced a series of political crises after he succeeded to the throne as James II on the death of his elder brother, Charles II, in 1685. These eventually led to a cabal of powerful English Protestant figures inviting William to usurp the British throne, based on the right of succession of his wife, Mary.
In 1688 he agreed and on 5 November landed unopposed at Brixham, Torbay. He was welcomed in south-west England – which had suffered the retribution of James's 'Bloody Assize' following the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion at Sedgemoor, Somerset, in 1685 – and was only briefly resisted by a few of James's Irish Catholic troops at Reading, west of London."
William's eventual crowning as William III was the culmination of "The Glorious Revolution", the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew.
Claiming to be responding to an Invitation asking him to "protect the Protestant religion", William landed in Devon with 20,000 men on 5 November 1688. As he advanced on London, James' army disintegrated, and he went into exile in France on 23 December. In April 1689, Parliament made William and Mary joint monarchs of England and Ireland. A separate but similar Scottish settlement was made in June.
Domestically, the Revolution confirmed the primacy of Parliament over the Crown in both England and Scotland. In terms of external policy, until his death in 1701, William combined the roles of Dutch stadholder and British monarch. Both states thus became allies in resisting French expansion, an alliance which persisted for much of the 18th century, despite differing objectives. Under William's leadership, Dutch resources were focused on the land war with France, with the Royal Navy taking the lead at sea. This was a significant factor in the Dutch Republic being overtaken as the leading European maritime power by Britain during the War of the Spanish Succession.
William and Mary ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694. The Revolution itself was relatively bloodless, but pro-Stuart revolts between 1689 and 1746 caused significant casualties, while the political movement known as Jacobitism persisted into the late 18th century. William's invasion was the last successful invasion of England. (Wikipedia)
From The Jigasaurus, on the East Anglian club
Jigsaw puzzle lending library, set up in the 1950's by Dolly McDougall and which continued to operate until around 1969, the last three years being run by her grandson Andrew Kershaw from Beccles in Suffolk.
The library began soon after Dolly's husband, the Rev. Rory McDougall, himself an accomplished cutter of wooden jigsaw puzzles, died in 1951. Dolly went on to expand the stock of puzzles herself, by learning to cut and became highly skilled and utterly fiendish in some of her own techniques.
When Dolly passed away in 1966 her grandson, Andrew Kershaw, took over the library and her fretsaw. He also became an adept cutter and added further to the stock, with his puzzles usually being housed in sturdy boxes, as opposed to the earlier cloth bags. Andrew operated the library from his home in Beccles for around three more years, but found that the time constraints associated with his full time job, coupled with a considerable increase in Post Office pricing, made its running no longer practical, so shut the library in around 1969.
Council of War - Dolly McDougall for the East Anglian Puzzle Club
A lucky find at the recent BCD House Party. Bought unseen in a little cloth bag, it is beautifully line cut and quite challenging to put together. I found the edges and dark background ok but all the characters took some time to pull together .. I just couldn't figure out where the seated guy's crossed ankles fitted for quite some time!
|I thought it was going to be an English civil war scene featuring Charles I but it is actually a painting by Henry Gillard Glindoni (British artist, 1852-1913) titled "William, Prince of Orange and his Aides after Landing at Torbay, 5th November"( in 1688)
212 pieces
13.5" x 9.5"
rmg.co.uk tells me:
"The son of Charles I's daughter Mary, Prince William (1650-1702) married Mary, daughter of his cousin James, Duke of York, in 1677. James had by then already converted to Catholicism, which produced a series of political crises after he succeeded to the throne as James II on the death of his elder brother, Charles II, in 1685. These eventually led to a cabal of powerful English Protestant figures inviting William to usurp the British throne, based on the right of succession of his wife, Mary.
In 1688 he agreed and on 5 November landed unopposed at Brixham, Torbay. He was welcomed in south-west England – which had suffered the retribution of James's 'Bloody Assize' following the defeat of the Duke of Monmouth's rebellion at Sedgemoor, Somerset, in 1685 – and was only briefly resisted by a few of James's Irish Catholic troops at Reading, west of London."
William's eventual crowning as William III was the culmination of "The Glorious Revolution", the sequence of events that led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688. He was replaced by his daughter Mary II and her Dutch husband, William III of Orange, who was also his nephew.
Claiming to be responding to an Invitation asking him to "protect the Protestant religion", William landed in Devon with 20,000 men on 5 November 1688. As he advanced on London, James' army disintegrated, and he went into exile in France on 23 December. In April 1689, Parliament made William and Mary joint monarchs of England and Ireland. A separate but similar Scottish settlement was made in June.
Domestically, the Revolution confirmed the primacy of Parliament over the Crown in both England and Scotland. In terms of external policy, until his death in 1701, William combined the roles of Dutch stadholder and British monarch. Both states thus became allies in resisting French expansion, an alliance which persisted for much of the 18th century, despite differing objectives. Under William's leadership, Dutch resources were focused on the land war with France, with the Royal Navy taking the lead at sea. This was a significant factor in the Dutch Republic being overtaken as the leading European maritime power by Britain during the War of the Spanish Succession.
William and Mary ruled as joint monarchs of England, Scotland, and Ireland until Mary's death in 1694. The Revolution itself was relatively bloodless, but pro-Stuart revolts between 1689 and 1746 caused significant casualties, while the political movement known as Jacobitism persisted into the late 18th century. William's invasion was the last successful invasion of England. (Wikipedia)
From The Jigasaurus, on the East Anglian club
Jigsaw puzzle lending library, set up in the 1950's by Dolly McDougall and which continued to operate until around 1969, the last three years being run by her grandson Andrew Kershaw from Beccles in Suffolk.
The library began soon after Dolly's husband, the Rev. Rory McDougall, himself an accomplished cutter of wooden jigsaw puzzles, died in 1951. Dolly went on to expand the stock of puzzles herself, by learning to cut and became highly skilled and utterly fiendish in some of her own techniques.
When Dolly passed away in 1966 her grandson, Andrew Kershaw, took over the library and her fretsaw. He also became an adept cutter and added further to the stock, with his puzzles usually being housed in sturdy boxes, as opposed to the earlier cloth bags. Andrew operated the library from his home in Beccles for around three more years, but found that the time constraints associated with his full time job, coupled with a considerable increase in Post Office pricing, made its running no longer practical, so shut the library in around 1969.