Optimago 700pc Embarkation of Henry VIII At Dover Black & White 4
Some black & white jigsaws from my records for Billsville Mike, who is creating a gallery of these unusual jigsaws.
This 700pc Optimago jigsaw is the rarer one of two black & white Optimago jigsaws I know of - I've only spotted this for sale twice (June 2015 & Sept 2018) whilst I've been studying jigsaws through ebay sales.
www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-embar...
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, engraving 1781 by James Basire the elder (1730 - 1802)
RA Collection: Art
This print is one of 180 plates which make up the 'British School I' album, presumably compiled in the early nineteenth century. This album is prefaced by a nine-page text entitled ‘Notes relating to the early history of British Art; to assist in forming a collection of illustrative engravings’. The album is in some sense a visual history of Britain since the Roman era, also including lists of prominent British artists and engravers (many of whom are not represented within the album) and another list of sources to consult.
The compiler of the album takes the view that:
'the interest of a collection of engravings illustrative of the British School can only be said to begin with works dating from the early part of the eighteenth century [where this album concludes, with the late works of Kneller]. Before that period, except in a very few instances, the specimens may interest the historian or the antiquary rather than the artist. To those earlier specimens the present first volume of the British School is nevertheless devoted… '
The painting is usually seen in full technicolour, as in the large Falcon 5000pc cardboard version.
www.rct.uk/collection/405793/the-embarkation-of-henry-vii...
Other wooden jigsaws were made from a different painting of the event - embarkation of Henry VIII on the The Great Harry at Dover by BF Gribble - Victory Gold Box 400pc, Beryl 400pc, Delta 400pc, Parker Bros 350pc, Salmon Academy 250pc and a solid vintage jigsaw of unknown maker.
The Parker jigsaw can be seen on Bob Armstrong's site:
www.oldpuzzles.com/buy-puzzles/sale-list/embarkation-henr...
Optimago 700pc Embarkation of Henry VIII At Dover Black & White 4
Some black & white jigsaws from my records for Billsville Mike, who is creating a gallery of these unusual jigsaws.
This 700pc Optimago jigsaw is the rarer one of two black & white Optimago jigsaws I know of - I've only spotted this for sale twice (June 2015 & Sept 2018) whilst I've been studying jigsaws through ebay sales.
www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/work-of-art/the-embar...
The Embarkation of Henry VIII at Dover, engraving 1781 by James Basire the elder (1730 - 1802)
RA Collection: Art
This print is one of 180 plates which make up the 'British School I' album, presumably compiled in the early nineteenth century. This album is prefaced by a nine-page text entitled ‘Notes relating to the early history of British Art; to assist in forming a collection of illustrative engravings’. The album is in some sense a visual history of Britain since the Roman era, also including lists of prominent British artists and engravers (many of whom are not represented within the album) and another list of sources to consult.
The compiler of the album takes the view that:
'the interest of a collection of engravings illustrative of the British School can only be said to begin with works dating from the early part of the eighteenth century [where this album concludes, with the late works of Kneller]. Before that period, except in a very few instances, the specimens may interest the historian or the antiquary rather than the artist. To those earlier specimens the present first volume of the British School is nevertheless devoted… '
The painting is usually seen in full technicolour, as in the large Falcon 5000pc cardboard version.
www.rct.uk/collection/405793/the-embarkation-of-henry-vii...
Other wooden jigsaws were made from a different painting of the event - embarkation of Henry VIII on the The Great Harry at Dover by BF Gribble - Victory Gold Box 400pc, Beryl 400pc, Delta 400pc, Parker Bros 350pc, Salmon Academy 250pc and a solid vintage jigsaw of unknown maker.
The Parker jigsaw can be seen on Bob Armstrong's site:
www.oldpuzzles.com/buy-puzzles/sale-list/embarkation-henr...