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Progress 1: Day 1. After a busy week I finally got around to starting this puzzle tonight. I have sorted the puzzle into 3 boxes; Box 1: the top 3rd of the puzzle which I have spread out all over my boards, normally I wouldn't do this but since I have the entire area open I figured why not, Box 2: the bottom 2/3 of the puzzle which includes all the figures and horses, Box 3: the pieces for the panels on the left and right which I believe will be the most time consuming. Hopefully with a strong weekend I will complete most of the top part of the puzzle.
The host of the June 2018 BCD Meeting is a cardboard jigsaw enthusiast, so we were all keen to bring along some stunning cardboard jigsaws from our collections, and to include them in our show & tell items. Many of these I've felt compelled to buy because I've seen photos in flickr groups - thanks guys! However, this one is entirely my own fault - I spotted it c2004 before I knew about flickr. I missed buying it then but managed to pick up a used copy in April 2017 - I hope it's complete.
These BIG jigsaws remain aspirational for me - both in places to visit and jigsaws to assemble. They also stand as evidence that firms today are still producing classic landscape jigsaws, with natural colours - if you look hard enough for them.
Castorland includes 19x4000pc jigsaws in its range, and a handful of beautiful, naturally coloured landscapes of 2000pc and more.
Educa 3000pc James Bond's Island.
Educa 4000pc Red Rock Dusk Arizona
Castorland 4000pc Majesty of the Mountains.
Pomegranate 1000pc Trail Riders by Thomas Hart Benson
(Pomegranate 1000pc Grand Canyon with Rainbow by Thomas Moran - on another photo).
Looking back, I wish I had mixed some of the bags and made it 2X4000 instead of 4X2000. Stored back in box to hopefully frame and hang.
Educa / 8000 pieces / 13432 / 2007
Brand new, purchased on French Amazon site. After building the Ravensburger version with 2000 pieces, I'm looking forward to doing this much larger version.
More info about the painting can be found here:
Now I have all 3 boxes! I don't know if there are other pictures or themes they produced for such a long time...
Take notice of the different copyrights:
1988: Sallent Hermanos (Sallent Bros.)
1998: Educa Sallent
2006: Educa Borras
Educa 12749
© Alphonse Mucha, VEGAP, Barcelona 2005
4000 pieces, used and with fourteen missing pieces.
136 x 96 cm
Our first foray into 4000 piece puzzles is this Educa jigsaw of Mucha's Four Seasons, a bargain £1 from a Beaumaris (Anglesey) charity shop. We wouldn't have bought it as our largest puzzle board is designed for 3K puzzles, but a quick look at the size assured us that we'd be able to fit most of the finished jigsaw on our board, with just a slight overhang, for a photo of the completed item. The overall design, in four sections, meant it was easy to assemble and store on our white boards until we were ready to put the whole thing together.
There had to be a downside: fourteen pieces were missing - 13 in the top right corner and one towards the bottom on the right hand edge.
Overall, a very enjoyable venture into the world of BIG puzzles, but it's doubtful we'll be looking out for more subjects due to the logistical nightmare involved in assembly.
Incidentally, we commenced assembly on 4/4/2019 and completed on 12/4/2019. We thought eight days was pretty good going, all things considered.
2019 piece count: 54622
Puzzle 68
Educa-messuilla 2018 esiteltiin Liikenneturvan uutta Fillarilla-verkko-oppimisympäristöä.
Kuva: Liikenneturva/Kaisa Tanskanen
This 4000pc cardboard jigsaw puzzle was made by Educa of Spain. No 11763 it measures 136x96cm. BillsvilleMike also owns this puzzle. As an admin for the Edward Burne-Jones group and self-confessed Pre-Raphaelite enthusiast I couldn't pass this one by!
The image is a painting by John Roddam Spencer-Stanhope, called 'Love and the Maiden' (exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery 1877, now in the collections of the California Palace of the Legion of Honor Art Museum, San Francisco) and considered his masterpiece. The box gives a brief paragraph about the artist and the painting - always a welcome addition.
Information about JR Spencer Stanhope from Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Roddam_Spencer_Stanhope
John Roddam Spencer Stanhope (20 January 1829 — 2 August 1908) is an English artist associated with Edward Burne-Jones and George Frederic Watts and often regarded as a second-wave pre-Raphaelite. He was one of the young painters recruited by Rossetti to decorate the Oxford Union (Sir Gawain and the Three Damsels at the Fountain). His work is also studied within the context of Aestheticism and British Symbolism. As a painter, Stanhope worked in oil, watercolor, fresco, and mixed media. His subject matter was mythological, allegorical, biblical, and contemporary. Stanhope was born in Yorkshire, England, and died in Florence, Italy. He was the uncle and teacher of the painter Evelyn de Morgan (nee Pickering).
Stanhope’s house Sandroyd (now called Benfleet Hall), near Cobham in Surrey, was commissioned from the architect Philip Webb - Webb’s second house, following Red House, built for William Morris. Sandroyd was designed to accommodate Stanhope’s work as a painter, with two second-floor studios connected by double doors, a waiting room, and a dressing room for models. The fireplace featured figurative tiles designed by Burne-Jones based on Chaucer’s dream-vision poem The Legend of Good Women. Burne-Jones was a frequent visitor to Sandroyd in the 1860s, and the landscape furnished the background for his painting The Merciful Knight (1864).
Stanhope hads chronic asthma and he began wintering in Florence. In the summers, he at first stayed at Burne-Jones’s house in London and later at the Elms, the western half of Little Campden House on Campden Hill, the eastern half of which was occupied by Augustus Egg.
Though his family accepted his occupation as a painter[ and took a great interest in art, Evelyn’s parents disparaged the achievements of “poor Roddy” and regarded the painters with whom he associated as “unconventional.” Considered among the avant-garde of the 1870s, Stanhope became a regular exhibitor at the Grosvenor Gallery, the alternative to the Royal Academy.
In 1873, he bought the Villa Nuti in Florence, where he was visited frequently by de Morgan and where he lived until his death. Stanhope moved permanently to Florence in 1880, where he painted the reredos of the English Church.Other work includes 12 panels in the Chapel of Marlborough College.
This puzzle is based on a painting by David Miller. I really like this scene because unlike some of the newer sea life puzzles it isn't overcrowded and it feels natural. I also like it because it is calming and comes across as being a hidden location.
Educa-messuilla 2018 esiteltiin Liikenneturvan uutta Fillarilla-verkko-oppimisympäristöä.
Kuva: Liikenneturva/Kaisa Tanskanen
In between doing the larger puzzles I like to do a smaller one or two. It helps me to get through the large back log of < 3000 pieces. I chose this one because of the painting which I find elegant and mysterious.
I'm quite drawn to paintings with parasols/umbrellas. One of favourites is Renoir's The Umbrellas.
A stunning offering from Educa. The image is outstanding with bright post-restoration colors and the pieces fit perfectly.
This has to be one of my very favorite puzzles. I love classics with fine detail and this one offers details in spades. I built this in 2012 in sections, though I could imagine doing it again mixing the pieces. This is the only puzzle I could ever imagine doing a second time.
I'll be curious to see how Educa's 18,000 piece version looks in comparison to this one. I will post several detail shots so the detailed images can be enjoyed.
Educa 14856
©2011 Haruyo Morita & Meiklejohn Graphics
500 pieces, used and complete
48 x 34cm
Another Morita painting, and another puzzle done alone.
Excellent Educa quality and a beautiful image, I can't get enough of these designs.
We're enjoying the break from joint puzzle assembly, but will go back to doing them together soon.
2019 piece count: 51190
Puzzle 64
Another recent Sunday night eBay find. The box might be open but the pieces are still sealed in the bags. Still find it amazing that these 20 and 30 year old puzzles were never opened or even attempted to be assembled.
Title: Patio de Caballos
Artist: Manuel Castellano
Completed last week. It was a very fun and easy puzzle.
Manuel Castellano was a Spanish costumbrista painter and engraver in the Romantic style, known especially for his bullfight scenes. He was also a noted art collector.
Costumbrismo is the literary or pictorial interpretation of local everyday life, mannerisms, and customs, primarily in the Hispanic scene, and particularly in the 19th century. Costumbrismo is related both to artistic realism and to Romanticism, sharing the Romantic interest in expression as against simple representation and the romantic and realist focus on precise representation of particular times and places, rather than of humanity in the abstract.
I haven't been able to work on this one as much as I'd like due to my busy schedule. I figured I would start with the sky, then work on the soldiers. I'm afraid the dark areas will test my patience, but I will plod through as always.
This is my 44th puzzle, but my first ever with a 4,000 piece count.