Tinworth’s Prodigal Son turns up to a welcome in Crewkerne
“Full of fire and and zealous faculty breaking its way through all conventionalism to such truth as it can conceive” – thus was the forthright opinion of John Ruskin on seeing George Tinworth’s collection of eight terracotta panels of biblical scenes at the 1875 Royal Academy Exhibition.
This maquette, right, of one of those panels, The Prodigal Son, turned up on July 11 at Crewkerne au…