I was trying to fill in the gaps on my June napkin with relevant pictures. This seemed to fit the bill, with it being exactly a hundred years since Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand. It is a flyer, pulled from the bin, of an exhibition about The Great War at The National Portrait Gallery. I have sewn every face from the leaflet onto the napkin.
You can see the whole piece here.
Baron Von Richthofen: Field Marshal Von Hindenburg by August Bocher, 1917 (copyright, Imperial War Museum): William Orpen (IWM): Jack Travers Cornwell (IWM): A Grenadier Guardsman by William Orpen, 1917 (IWM)
Field Marshal Haig by William Orpen, 1917 (IWM): Churchill by William Orpen, 1916 (copyright, National Portrait Gallery): Edith Cavell, 1910s (NPG): Soldier with Facial Wounds by Henry Tonks, 1916-18 (copyright The Royal College of Surgeons): Major J.B. McCudden by William Orpen, 1918 (IWM): Gavrilo Princip, 1914 (IWM): Unidentified, 1915 (IWM).
A Royal Irish Fusilier, ‘Just Come From The Chemical Works, Roeux, 21st May 1917 (IWM): Hermann Struck by Lovis Corinth, 1915 (copyright Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich).
Mata Hari (IWM): Siegfried Sassoon (IWM).
Isaac Rosenberg, 1915 (NPG): Unidentified by Ernest Brooks, 1917 (IWM).
Applause, applause…unusual and very creative idea! – Sharon
Thanks Sharon 🙂
Great to see it finished, looks really good. Hope all goes well with the building work.
Yes, me too!
Discovered a gas leak a few days ago – getting that fixed as we speak!
Hope you get some good summer drawings done 🙂
The heads have added a real bounce! It just gets better. Hope the building work goes well.
I think the building work is pretty straight forward, if you’re a builder. So should be fine.
Yes, I really like the heads. I have sewn heads on stuff before, and I always find the results pleasing.
Thanks, Richard.
Thanks Richard
It’s great to see it all here AND I have to say again, your photographs are perfect. x
Thanks Tina xx
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