BCD House Party Bon Accord Club Indian Durbar DSC02016
I first saw this wonderful jigsaw for sale on ebay and later it appeared in its box at a BCD meeting celebrating library puzzles hosted by a friend. She confessed that she hadn't had the nerve to do it in June 2015, but that the 2019 House Party theme had motivated her to do so.
The jigsaw is extremely well cut and the image is very attractive - the howdah roof protruding through the outline adds to the interest and difficulty. It is semi-interlocking with interlocking border and includes colour-line cutting. It was made for the Bon Accord Jigsaw Puzzle Club, Aberdeen. The club was run by: Watt Bros, 337 Union Street, Aberdeen but the cutter is unknown. The box is rectangular, made from A4 heavy duty brown card with labels on the top and the end.
I only have this one example in my files.
975 piece “An Indian Durbar” by Dorothy Newsome 25” x 26”. Comments: Examples are rare."
I looked for information about Dorothy Newsome and came up with these interesting references:
The travel poster for P&O that was used for this jigsaw can be seen here. It has black panels above and below the image carrying the text, with the howdah and the feet of the man in blue protruding into them:
www.art.co.uk/products/p12493832-sa-i1846980/dorothy-news...
www.art.com/gallery/id--a25324/dorothy-newsome-posters.htm
The text is P&O World Ocean Cruises
India Ceylon Straits China Japan Australasia
www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp...
Photographs Album - Newsome-Glenn Collection: Miscellaneous Indian Views.
A collection of 3450 loose miscellaneous prints of Indian architecture, scenery, people and customs, collected from a variety of sources. It appears to have been compiled by Dorothy Newsome-Glenn as artist's references for illustrations, and several of the prints have been squared off in pencil to aid copying. Ms. Newsome-Glenn (c.1900-1980) apparently worked as an artist/illustrator in India in the 1920s and 30s, and these photographs were retrieved by Mr Colin Patridge after they had been discarded after her death. A number also have references written on the back which indicate that they were published as illustrations in various Indian magazines. Some of the photographs are the work of Stanley Jepson, editor of The weekly illustrated of India in the 1930s and it is probably that either some of these photographs, or illustrations from them were used in that journal.
You can see an example of one of Dorothy Newsome's posters, 'Visit Holy Isipatana, (Sarnath) India' on this blog
mydelineatedlife.blogspot.co.uk/2014_08_01_archive.html
BCD House Party Bon Accord Club Indian Durbar DSC02016
I first saw this wonderful jigsaw for sale on ebay and later it appeared in its box at a BCD meeting celebrating library puzzles hosted by a friend. She confessed that she hadn't had the nerve to do it in June 2015, but that the 2019 House Party theme had motivated her to do so.
The jigsaw is extremely well cut and the image is very attractive - the howdah roof protruding through the outline adds to the interest and difficulty. It is semi-interlocking with interlocking border and includes colour-line cutting. It was made for the Bon Accord Jigsaw Puzzle Club, Aberdeen. The club was run by: Watt Bros, 337 Union Street, Aberdeen but the cutter is unknown. The box is rectangular, made from A4 heavy duty brown card with labels on the top and the end.
I only have this one example in my files.
975 piece “An Indian Durbar” by Dorothy Newsome 25” x 26”. Comments: Examples are rare."
I looked for information about Dorothy Newsome and came up with these interesting references:
The travel poster for P&O that was used for this jigsaw can be seen here. It has black panels above and below the image carrying the text, with the howdah and the feet of the man in blue protruding into them:
www.art.co.uk/products/p12493832-sa-i1846980/dorothy-news...
www.art.com/gallery/id--a25324/dorothy-newsome-posters.htm
The text is P&O World Ocean Cruises
India Ceylon Straits China Japan Australasia
www.bl.uk/catalogues/indiaofficeselect/PhotoShowDescs.asp...
Photographs Album - Newsome-Glenn Collection: Miscellaneous Indian Views.
A collection of 3450 loose miscellaneous prints of Indian architecture, scenery, people and customs, collected from a variety of sources. It appears to have been compiled by Dorothy Newsome-Glenn as artist's references for illustrations, and several of the prints have been squared off in pencil to aid copying. Ms. Newsome-Glenn (c.1900-1980) apparently worked as an artist/illustrator in India in the 1920s and 30s, and these photographs were retrieved by Mr Colin Patridge after they had been discarded after her death. A number also have references written on the back which indicate that they were published as illustrations in various Indian magazines. Some of the photographs are the work of Stanley Jepson, editor of The weekly illustrated of India in the 1930s and it is probably that either some of these photographs, or illustrations from them were used in that journal.
You can see an example of one of Dorothy Newsome's posters, 'Visit Holy Isipatana, (Sarnath) India' on this blog
mydelineatedlife.blogspot.co.uk/2014_08_01_archive.html