Jigsaw Library 255pc 'Two Points of View' AL Grace Collage 1
The June 2015 BCD (British jigsaw association) meeting's theme was Library Puzzles and Interesting Cardboard Puzzles.
This bagged jigsaw was once part of an unknown jigsaw library's stock - no 355 I think. The comments on the label indicate 4 loans in the period 6.6.1974 to 21.9.81. It is non-interlocking, and the person completing it in 1981 declared "bored with it, didn't finish it". 255pc, measuring 16x13.7in.
The two smaller images show a rather more interesting cut of the same image which I own, but haven't assembled yet. It is a richly detailed cut, with some affinity to those of the Stocken family, but is not a textbook example. Once I've completed it I'll take the jigsaw along to a meeting to see if anyone can advise me.
The image is by Alfred Lyndon Grace, 1867-1949, titled 'Two Points of View'. A.L. Grace was a well known Victorian artist in England. He painted cricket and fishing subjects, genre paintings, military subjects, still lifes, and animal pictures. He also painted playful pictures of religious figures enagaged in casual day to day life. Grace was known to rarely date his works. The broader themes of his work had universal appeal to his Victorian audience, leading to demands to have his paintings transformed into engravings. These more affordable engravings were accessible to a larger audience.
www.alanbarnesfineart.com/artist/alfred-lyndon-grace-a-l/
Jigsaw Library 255pc 'Two Points of View' AL Grace Collage 1
The June 2015 BCD (British jigsaw association) meeting's theme was Library Puzzles and Interesting Cardboard Puzzles.
This bagged jigsaw was once part of an unknown jigsaw library's stock - no 355 I think. The comments on the label indicate 4 loans in the period 6.6.1974 to 21.9.81. It is non-interlocking, and the person completing it in 1981 declared "bored with it, didn't finish it". 255pc, measuring 16x13.7in.
The two smaller images show a rather more interesting cut of the same image which I own, but haven't assembled yet. It is a richly detailed cut, with some affinity to those of the Stocken family, but is not a textbook example. Once I've completed it I'll take the jigsaw along to a meeting to see if anyone can advise me.
The image is by Alfred Lyndon Grace, 1867-1949, titled 'Two Points of View'. A.L. Grace was a well known Victorian artist in England. He painted cricket and fishing subjects, genre paintings, military subjects, still lifes, and animal pictures. He also painted playful pictures of religious figures enagaged in casual day to day life. Grace was known to rarely date his works. The broader themes of his work had universal appeal to his Victorian audience, leading to demands to have his paintings transformed into engravings. These more affordable engravings were accessible to a larger audience.
www.alanbarnesfineart.com/artist/alfred-lyndon-grace-a-l/