| Name | Barfoot |
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| Brief Description | J R Barfoot and his son J W Barfoot illustrated games for many makers including Betts and Ogilvy. See notes in Hannas |
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| Principal Maker | Y |
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| Copyright Registrations in this name | |
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| Adverts | 5 adverts
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| Examples | 78 examples |
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| Important makers of dissected puzzles and also games c1845-1865, and to a limited extent by JWB after that. See notes in The English Jigsaw Puzzle by Linda Hannas. Publication was usually anonymous.
Trade lists, probably by Standring, exist.
Note based mainly on information from Linda Hannas’s book:
The Barfoots illustrated puzzles and games for other publishers including Betts, Ogilvy, and Standring.
JR Barfoot died in 1863 aged 69 (he was probably inactive from about 1860).
JW Barfoot was born in 1838, so he would have been able to help his father illustrate and cut by 1855, perhaps earlier.
Most work was not signed or initialled. JR signed the label for Ogilvy’s game L’Orient. He sometimes used initials JB or JRB, and sometimes a monogram.
Hannas concludes JW almost always used roses somewhere in his work.
She records early examples of JW’s illustration from 1855 (Ladder of Learning puzzle). At this young age his work appears to imitate his father’s in style, but is less well drawn. By about 1860 he developed a distinctive style. See My Funny Nursery Rhymes label which he signed, and later Homes of England puzzle sheet, and Don Quixote label c1862, both signed. Hannas says he also used initials JB (A View of Ramsgate c1865), and this is supported by the initials JB on the cover of the Jumbo game at the Bodleian Library, (Jumbo only arrived at London Zoo in 1865).
Their workshop/residence was given up a couple of years after JR’s death (there was another occupant by 1866), but puzzles continued to be listed, presumably by Standring, and some with the same titles by Perry & Co in their Price Current as late as Christmas 1881. |
