JEFFRESON - an extra bonus ! 

You will recall in the article on Jeffreson in my last Newsletter that I used two photographs that not only photographed the silhouettes but also the photographer! Above are the replacements for those photographs - I hope you will agree that these are an improvement.

The images are larger than life-size, but show clearly the style and quality of Jeffreson's gold highlights. These also show his thinned water-colour 'touches' outside the main body of the silhouettes - i.e. on the homely woman her bows and bits of hair at the front and back of her bonnet - also on the rather grander man his shirt front and also bits of hair on the top and at the back of his head. These sort of details can help to attribute a work to a particular artist in the absence of any remnant of label or signature.

Taking silhouettes through glass is never easy except perhaps for the experts - but my photographer in this case spent quite a lot of time to get the desired result. Something is learnt with each 'effort' but photography seems to have a habit of playing odd 'tricks' from time to time!