Vintage 167pc As Sweet As The Heather Muriel Dawson DSC01381
A small vintage good quality plywood jigsaw of 167pc, measuring 7.5 x 9 in. It is cut in a push-fit ribbon style after first cutting the blank in half. I built it from the bottom up , the sky proving the most difficult, in a couple of hours or so.
The box is a paper-covered re-used piece of packaging, and may or may not be original. The cutter is unknown.
The image is 'As Sweet As The Heather' by Muriel Dawson. You can read about Muriel and view a collection of her notebooks on this website - Maryevans.
www.maryevans.com/newsletter/oct12/nl_oct_12_web.php
Muriel Dawson (1897 - 1974) was born in New Zealand to Scottish parents, but moved back to the UK in 1913. She studied art at Richmond School of Art and later the Royal College of Art and found work as an illustrator from the early 1920s. Muriel enjoyed rural life and spent time living in Sussex and Dartmoor before finally returning to her Scottish roots and settling in the remote Shetland Islands, where she spent the final years of her life. During the 1920s and 1930s her work had been familiar to thousands. As well as illustrating a number of books, Dawson contributed hundreds of pictures for the front cover of weekly magazine, Woman's Pictorial from the 1920s through to the 1940s. She also had a long-standing relationship with art publisher The Medici Society.
Vintage 167pc As Sweet As The Heather Muriel Dawson DSC01381
A small vintage good quality plywood jigsaw of 167pc, measuring 7.5 x 9 in. It is cut in a push-fit ribbon style after first cutting the blank in half. I built it from the bottom up , the sky proving the most difficult, in a couple of hours or so.
The box is a paper-covered re-used piece of packaging, and may or may not be original. The cutter is unknown.
The image is 'As Sweet As The Heather' by Muriel Dawson. You can read about Muriel and view a collection of her notebooks on this website - Maryevans.
www.maryevans.com/newsletter/oct12/nl_oct_12_web.php
Muriel Dawson (1897 - 1974) was born in New Zealand to Scottish parents, but moved back to the UK in 1913. She studied art at Richmond School of Art and later the Royal College of Art and found work as an illustrator from the early 1920s. Muriel enjoyed rural life and spent time living in Sussex and Dartmoor before finally returning to her Scottish roots and settling in the remote Shetland Islands, where she spent the final years of her life. During the 1920s and 1930s her work had been familiar to thousands. As well as illustrating a number of books, Dawson contributed hundreds of pictures for the front cover of weekly magazine, Woman's Pictorial from the 1920s through to the 1940s. She also had a long-standing relationship with art publisher The Medici Society.