Hobson Library Family Worship 20
This also fits with the theme of Love and Friendship, the Sept 2022 BCD meeting theme.
Another example of this Pears image jigsaw was sold on ebay this autumn 2015 (477pc), and bought by a new BCD member, who posted it on facebook.
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The theme for the June 2015 BCD Meeting (British jigsaw association) was Library Puzzles and Interesting Cardboard Jigsaws.
This push-fit library puzzle shows a Pears print, with title 'Family Worship'. The size of the 465pc jigsaw is 17.5 x 13in and it is attractively cut in an early push-fit style, with significant line cutting. I didn't check the material it is made from but I would expect it to be solid or very early thick plywood. Family Worship, from the Pears Annual of 1911, was painted by Joseph Clark (1834-1926). The brown cardboard box carries a number of labels, including one square one set diagonally.
BCD member Nicki has collected the following information:
"Hobson Puzzle Club 1910-1920
Location: The Elms, Spalding
Run and ? cut by : Miss Hobson
Boxes: A5 deep A5 heavy brown card with puzzle details and a note requesting subscribers not to lose pieces or allow pets to gnaw them. Puzzle label on end giving Number.
Cut: Superb semi-interlocking and push fit in thick, high quality ply. Each piece is numbered with the puzzle number on the back.
Example: 465 piece Pears print “Family Worship” 13” x 17.5” No 331.
Comments: A small club. Examples are rare. Dating of club is based on Pears Image."
You can read an account of Joseph Clark's life here:
Joseph Clark was born near Dorchester, Dorset. He studied painting in London under J. M. Leigh (1808-1860), who was himself the only pupil of William Etty, RA (1787-1849), the celebrated painter of classical and historical subjects. Clark specialised in depicting domestic genre subjects of a tender nature which generally featured children and he also painted a small number of biblical subjects. In 1857 at the age of twenty three he exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy and he continued to exhibit there for all but two of the subsequent forty seven years.
Like many Victorian painters he sought to demonstrate their social conscience through emphasising the importance of family life in their work. Whilst avoiding the overly sentimental style of some of his contemporaries, he frequently chose subjects which sought to remind people of their good fortune of a caring family when many children grew up as orphans in workhouses. Joseph Clark enjoyed considerable success with his paintings, maintaining both a London house and a home in the country for much of his life. In 1876 he was awarded a medal in Philadelphia for his paintings 'The Sick Child' and 'The Nest'. The Chantrey Bequest purchased two of his paintings, 'Early Promise' in 1877 and 'A Mother's Darling' in 1885. Other works include 'The Draughts Players',
'The Return of the Runaway', 'Home from the War'.
Exhibited : Royal Academy 1857-1904, British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New Water - Colour Society, Grosvenor Gallery, Birmingham, Dudley, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester
Museums : Sheffield
www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/joseph-clark.html
Hobson Library Family Worship 20
This also fits with the theme of Love and Friendship, the Sept 2022 BCD meeting theme.
Another example of this Pears image jigsaw was sold on ebay this autumn 2015 (477pc), and bought by a new BCD member, who posted it on facebook.
-
The theme for the June 2015 BCD Meeting (British jigsaw association) was Library Puzzles and Interesting Cardboard Jigsaws.
This push-fit library puzzle shows a Pears print, with title 'Family Worship'. The size of the 465pc jigsaw is 17.5 x 13in and it is attractively cut in an early push-fit style, with significant line cutting. I didn't check the material it is made from but I would expect it to be solid or very early thick plywood. Family Worship, from the Pears Annual of 1911, was painted by Joseph Clark (1834-1926). The brown cardboard box carries a number of labels, including one square one set diagonally.
BCD member Nicki has collected the following information:
"Hobson Puzzle Club 1910-1920
Location: The Elms, Spalding
Run and ? cut by : Miss Hobson
Boxes: A5 deep A5 heavy brown card with puzzle details and a note requesting subscribers not to lose pieces or allow pets to gnaw them. Puzzle label on end giving Number.
Cut: Superb semi-interlocking and push fit in thick, high quality ply. Each piece is numbered with the puzzle number on the back.
Example: 465 piece Pears print “Family Worship” 13” x 17.5” No 331.
Comments: A small club. Examples are rare. Dating of club is based on Pears Image."
You can read an account of Joseph Clark's life here:
Joseph Clark was born near Dorchester, Dorset. He studied painting in London under J. M. Leigh (1808-1860), who was himself the only pupil of William Etty, RA (1787-1849), the celebrated painter of classical and historical subjects. Clark specialised in depicting domestic genre subjects of a tender nature which generally featured children and he also painted a small number of biblical subjects. In 1857 at the age of twenty three he exhibited his first painting at the Royal Academy and he continued to exhibit there for all but two of the subsequent forty seven years.
Like many Victorian painters he sought to demonstrate their social conscience through emphasising the importance of family life in their work. Whilst avoiding the overly sentimental style of some of his contemporaries, he frequently chose subjects which sought to remind people of their good fortune of a caring family when many children grew up as orphans in workhouses. Joseph Clark enjoyed considerable success with his paintings, maintaining both a London house and a home in the country for much of his life. In 1876 he was awarded a medal in Philadelphia for his paintings 'The Sick Child' and 'The Nest'. The Chantrey Bequest purchased two of his paintings, 'Early Promise' in 1877 and 'A Mother's Darling' in 1885. Other works include 'The Draughts Players',
'The Return of the Runaway', 'Home from the War'.
Exhibited : Royal Academy 1857-1904, British Institution, Royal Society of British Artists, Suffolk Street, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, New Water - Colour Society, Grosvenor Gallery, Birmingham, Dudley, Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester
Museums : Sheffield
www.burlington.co.uk/artist-biography/joseph-clark.html