The cartoons have been placed at St Mary’s Church next to the stained-glass windows they represent.
While the word cartoon usually refers to an animation or a funny drawing, in an art historical context it can also refer to a full-scale preparatory drawing for a piece of art, according to the Royal Academy of Arts.
Charlie Malet de Carteret from the trust said it was “fantastic to be able to see the detail close up in the cartoons” and then “look at the windows and see how they’ve been finished off”.
He added the works were “spine-tingling” and it was “an extraordinary thought” that someone from Jersey had “such a national and international reach”.
Bosdet was born in St Helier in 1856 and in 1883 was appointed Curator of the Life School at the Royal Academy in London where he was influenced by the Pre-Raphaelite movement.
