This piece was engraved for the Trove exhibition at the Perth Museum & Art Gallery. The museum selected several glass artists from The Scottish Glass Society to pick an object form the museum's reserve collection and base a piece of glass art on it. The piece would then be exhibited alongside the object from the collection. The subject for this engraving was suggested by a print, ‘The Puppet Master’ by Robert Sargent Austen, dating from the 1930’s. The old man in the print is reputed to be a self portrait. He sits with his puppets but has no audience. The engraver has responded by making the puppet master into his own self portrait and creating an audience with his seven grandchildren and six step grandchildren. The grandfather theme has been emphasised by displaying the engraving in a grandfather clock case from the Museum’s collection.