BCD House Party 2023 S&T Genest Le Colimacon 1927pc Nautch Girls & Bullock Gammy Edwin Lord Weeks DSC02433
The first of Pete D's show & tell jigsaws has been shown to us before - but a repeat viewing of a jigsaw this good is always welcome!
Genest Le Colimacon 1927pc Nautch Girls & Bullock Gammy by Edward Lord Weekes, cut 2020, 60x40cm. Extensively line cut, push-fit, with different cutting styles in different areas.
Edwin Lord Weeks, an American artist and traveller, painted this scene c.1882/3. After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America’s major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882–83).
In 1895 Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and in 1897 he published Episodes of Mountaineering (which was preceded by the 1894 article Some Episodes of Mountaineering, by a Casual Amateur).
The nautch was a popular court dance performed by girls (known as "nautch girls") in India. The culture of the performing art of the nautch rose to prominence during the later period of Mughal Empire, and the British East India Company Rule. Over time, the nautch traveled outside the confines of the Imperial courts of the Mughals, the palaces of the Nawabs and the Princely states, and the higher echelons of the officials of the British Raj, to the places of smaller Zamindars.
BCD House Party 2023 S&T Genest Le Colimacon 1927pc Nautch Girls & Bullock Gammy Edwin Lord Weeks DSC02433
The first of Pete D's show & tell jigsaws has been shown to us before - but a repeat viewing of a jigsaw this good is always welcome!
Genest Le Colimacon 1927pc Nautch Girls & Bullock Gammy by Edward Lord Weekes, cut 2020, 60x40cm. Extensively line cut, push-fit, with different cutting styles in different areas.
Edwin Lord Weeks, an American artist and traveller, painted this scene c.1882/3. After his studies in Paris, Weeks emerged as one of America’s major painters of Orientalist subjects. Throughout his adult life he was an inveterate traveler and journeyed to South America (1869), Egypt and Persia (1870), Morocco (frequently between 1872 and 1878), and India (1882–83).
In 1895 Weeks wrote and illustrated a book of travels, From the Black Sea through Persia and India, and in 1897 he published Episodes of Mountaineering (which was preceded by the 1894 article Some Episodes of Mountaineering, by a Casual Amateur).
The nautch was a popular court dance performed by girls (known as "nautch girls") in India. The culture of the performing art of the nautch rose to prominence during the later period of Mughal Empire, and the British East India Company Rule. Over time, the nautch traveled outside the confines of the Imperial courts of the Mughals, the palaces of the Nawabs and the Princely states, and the higher echelons of the officials of the British Raj, to the places of smaller Zamindars.