Detail British Jigsaw Library Lapland Bunting by Henik Gronvold DSC00430
The British Library jigsaw by unknown cutter, marked IRP - I thought it might be the cutter's initials but was told that '1 replacement piece' was a more likely explanation! The blank was roughly divided by a wiggly lines, a semi-interlocking frame cut and then dissected into push-fit pieces with random smooth knobs. It has 444pc and measures 19.5x14.3in. The semi-interlocking frame doesn't hold together well making it fiddly. It took me several sessions without an image as all the birds are colour-line cut. I started assembling lengths of edging, but soon moved on to assembling coloured sections of bird plumage, or leaves. Some birds were easier than others but you just have to wait until inspiration strikes or the number of possibilities reduce! Building up background sometimes led to a nice distinctive head or tail hole.
The print is very aged or grubby - possibly it is more than a century old and has been through many hands. I saw a program on tv about mending things (The Repair Shop) which used crumbed rubber to remove oil and stains from documents/jigsaw, a bit like using white bread-crumb as a rubber when I was a child. I wonder if it would help?
The rose-coloured starlings (previously Sturnus roseus, now reclassified as Pastor roseus) are in the centre - faint labels identify Hedge Sparrow, Cril Bunting, Golden Oriole, & Lapland Bunting (anticlockwise from lower left).
Henrik Grovold's signature is under the Cril Buntings, lower right. A very beautiful illustration done for a Zoological book - I found the central image in Birds of Britain and Ireland, 1908 by Henrik Gronvold. Henrik Grönvold (1858 – 1940) was a Danish naturalist, taxidermist and artist, known for his illustrations of birds from all over the world. He was employed at the Natural History Museum, London until 1895, when he accompanied William Ogilvie-Grant on an expedition to the Salvage Islands. Grönvold drew plates for many monographs and publications, for collectors like Walter Rothschild and for institutions. He was among the last natural history illustrators to publish books containing hand-coloured plates and lithographs.
Detail British Jigsaw Library Lapland Bunting by Henik Gronvold DSC00430
The British Library jigsaw by unknown cutter, marked IRP - I thought it might be the cutter's initials but was told that '1 replacement piece' was a more likely explanation! The blank was roughly divided by a wiggly lines, a semi-interlocking frame cut and then dissected into push-fit pieces with random smooth knobs. It has 444pc and measures 19.5x14.3in. The semi-interlocking frame doesn't hold together well making it fiddly. It took me several sessions without an image as all the birds are colour-line cut. I started assembling lengths of edging, but soon moved on to assembling coloured sections of bird plumage, or leaves. Some birds were easier than others but you just have to wait until inspiration strikes or the number of possibilities reduce! Building up background sometimes led to a nice distinctive head or tail hole.
The print is very aged or grubby - possibly it is more than a century old and has been through many hands. I saw a program on tv about mending things (The Repair Shop) which used crumbed rubber to remove oil and stains from documents/jigsaw, a bit like using white bread-crumb as a rubber when I was a child. I wonder if it would help?
The rose-coloured starlings (previously Sturnus roseus, now reclassified as Pastor roseus) are in the centre - faint labels identify Hedge Sparrow, Cril Bunting, Golden Oriole, & Lapland Bunting (anticlockwise from lower left).
Henrik Grovold's signature is under the Cril Buntings, lower right. A very beautiful illustration done for a Zoological book - I found the central image in Birds of Britain and Ireland, 1908 by Henrik Gronvold. Henrik Grönvold (1858 – 1940) was a Danish naturalist, taxidermist and artist, known for his illustrations of birds from all over the world. He was employed at the Natural History Museum, London until 1895, when he accompanied William Ogilvie-Grant on an expedition to the Salvage Islands. Grönvold drew plates for many monographs and publications, for collectors like Walter Rothschild and for institutions. He was among the last natural history illustrators to publish books containing hand-coloured plates and lithographs.