1942
watercolor
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Savage's Yard, King's Lynn, Norfolk is a 1942 watercolor by Barbara Jones, a British Romanticism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Barbara Jones painted a quiet watercolor of Savage’s Yard in 1942. This place once built steam-powered merry-go-rounds and fairground organs. By 1942 most of that trade had moved on. The scene shows a brightly painted merry-go-round horse and two old-fashioned automata on an organ. They would have chimed and drummed when the ride spun. Look up the Victoria and Albert Museum.
A watercolour by Barbara Jones depicts Savage’s Yard in King’s Lynn, Norfolk, showing stored fairground components in a state of neglect. The central focus is a lightly carved merry-go-round horse, its painted details imitating elaborate carving, while two eighteenth-century-style automata perch atop a fairground organ in the background. The scene includes discarded materials such as a rolled concertina of card on the floor, conveying a sense of decay within the former hub of merry-go-round and organ manufacturing. The work was created as part of the ‘Recording Britain’ project, documenting…
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Barbara Mildred Jones (25 December 1912 – 28 August 1978) was an English artist, writer and mural painter. She is known for curating the exhibition Black Eyes and Lemonade (1951) and her book The Unsophisticated Arts (1951).
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