{"id":4009,"date":"2024-08-15T14:07:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/?p=4009"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:50:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:50:36","slug":"rackhams-forest-nymphs-foxsmartbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lquilter.net\/jigsaw\/2024\/08\/15\/rackhams-forest-nymphs-foxsmartbox\/","title":{"rendered":"Rackham’s Forest Nymphs, FoxSmartBox"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Arthur Rackham<\/a> is one of my favorite Victorian children’s illustrators, so I was happy to pick up “Forest Nymphs<\/a>” from FoxSmartBox. FoxSmartBox calls this image “Forest Nymphs”, but I’ve seen it more commonly labeled “Wood Nymphs” — for instance, at the NYPL digital collection<\/a>, in an illustration of John Milton’s Comus<\/em> (1634)<\/a>, published in 1921. For a work conceived of as an homage to chastity, the subtle nippling of the fairies was pretty entertaining (to me, anyway). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started it yesterday, finished it today. Wow, look at that edge — that irregular border, along with similar pieces on the inside, made things a little trickier than one might expect. That was a common theme in this cut — some identical piece-cuts here and there, and some similar-but-not-identical, lending a bit of extra challenge and requiring careful attention to the (highly detailed) original art. Overall, I enjoyed the puzzling. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are told to check out the back for “the story”, but I don’t really get “the story” … I see some multi-piece whimsies. Is this a story? Am I just graphically blind? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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