References

This has been much the most fun of all the jigsaws I've done. They are very well cut pieces, difficult for spatially-challenged me, but not too difficult - and it is a fine detailed image by the painter and Illustrator C.E. Brock. The painting was done in 1936 and the jigsaw was made in 1938. The painting 'References' is a whole story in one illustration. It was evidently exhibited at the Royal Academy the year it was painted. Brock was born in 1870 and died two years after painting this, in 1938.

 

This Chad Valley jigsaw was part of a short selection they made from magazine illustrations. This one had been in the London Illustrated News.

 

Notice there is one piece at the top on the left that is a different colour from those surrounding it. I wonder if a piece could have got mixed up when the jigsaws, which were cut in stacks, were boxed, and another print had been darker. Or else perhaps the piece has been cannibalized by a later collector, from another jigsaw cut in the same stack.

 

I love the box - still with its tape and the original seal.

 

This is from an album called 'Housebound Continued'

www.flickr.com/photos/libbyhalldogs/albums/72157715457102747

 

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