Rob Garner Amber c350pc Sheep Shearing Match Australia 3 Eyre Crowe adj 16x7in
A summer farming activity.
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An interesting painting, which appealed to me because of it's fresh colours and after our New Zealand holiday, where I saw a sheep shearing demonstration. Nicki sold this jigsaw in Mar 2019, but alas I was outbid.
Amber Puzzles Rob Garner 346pc A Sheep Shearing Match by Eyre Crowe, 1875, 16x7in, 'mixed fully and semi-interlocking'. The box is numbered 182, but I don't have the dating information. You can see divided corners and Rob's characteristic elbow pieces - there is also a significant level of line cutting particularly along tent folds edges & poles, and around figures (generally crossed by the odd knob). I can see three trademark whimsies R & heart (in the tent) and Rufus set against a sheep pelt.
Wikipedia article about Eyre Crowe:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyre_Crowe_(painter)
"Eyre Crowe ARA (1824–1910) was a British author and painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism. He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian Joseph Archer Crowe, whose son Eyre Crowe became an important diplomat. He was a pupil of William Darley and later of Paul Delaroche in Paris.
He travelled in the United States as amanuensis to William Makepeace Thackeray between 1852 and 1853. He published With Thackeray in America (1893) and Thackeray's Haunts and Homes (1897). He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1846 and 1908. In 1876 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy."
Rob Garner Amber c350pc Sheep Shearing Match Australia 3 Eyre Crowe adj 16x7in
A summer farming activity.
-
An interesting painting, which appealed to me because of it's fresh colours and after our New Zealand holiday, where I saw a sheep shearing demonstration. Nicki sold this jigsaw in Mar 2019, but alas I was outbid.
Amber Puzzles Rob Garner 346pc A Sheep Shearing Match by Eyre Crowe, 1875, 16x7in, 'mixed fully and semi-interlocking'. The box is numbered 182, but I don't have the dating information. You can see divided corners and Rob's characteristic elbow pieces - there is also a significant level of line cutting particularly along tent folds edges & poles, and around figures (generally crossed by the odd knob). I can see three trademark whimsies R & heart (in the tent) and Rufus set against a sheep pelt.
Wikipedia article about Eyre Crowe:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyre_Crowe_(painter)
"Eyre Crowe ARA (1824–1910) was a British author and painter, principally of historical art and genre scenes, but with an interest in social realism. He was born in London, and grew up in France. He was the eldest son of the journalist Eyre Evans Crowe and brother of the journalist, diplomat and art historian Joseph Archer Crowe, whose son Eyre Crowe became an important diplomat. He was a pupil of William Darley and later of Paul Delaroche in Paris.
He travelled in the United States as amanuensis to William Makepeace Thackeray between 1852 and 1853. He published With Thackeray in America (1893) and Thackeray's Haunts and Homes (1897). He exhibited paintings at the Royal Academy in London between 1846 and 1908. In 1876 he was elected an Associate of the Royal Academy."