International studio (36.1908/1909(1909))

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with a broad decorative border, was recently exe-
cuted for Carrow Abbey, near Norwich.
The 7?i?7'a panel, here reproduced in colour
(p. 19), was originally executed in 1885, with a white-
robed hgure amid a greenery of acanthus foliage,
designed by Wiltiam Morris. For the present
scheme of colouring and background of Howering
plants Mr. Dearle is responsible.
Reference has already been made to the ^Ttg-c?;'
/zrzzzfcTz/M. This and the companion subject,
^7zg*^/z' zzzzTzzk/T-aTz/M (both subjects with the
addition of a dado of trees and armorial shields,
adapted from a portion of the " Holy Grail"
decoration), were executed in 1904 for Eton
CoIIege Chapel, to Hank the " Star of Bethlehem "
tapestry already there. The whole arrangement
was designed as a memorial to those Etonians
who fell in the South African war, as witness the
Latin inscription running along the top of one of
the panels:—" Afhi <? Afcr-
/WZfTZtZ /Z'Al/7*/7ZCZ Z77Z<7g77ZM
77Zz'A?M77r JZZ07-ZZW TWTWW
^crzz^T-zzTz/ ^/<77zg7zr^T
Of two reproductions
of Botticelli's famous
AWTTMwya, the second
is now on view at the
Franco-British Exhtbition
at Shepherd's Bush.
More important, how-
ever, than any single one
of its predecessors is the
grand tapestry hanging,
/^zMz'zzg* (7/ FiwM, of
which a black-and-white
illustration appeared in
the June number of TnE
St'UDio this year, the
design being that of the
late Sir Edward Burne-
Jones. The?7M/ywasnot
a new one of the artist's.
As long ago as 1878, in
Zazzj Ff7zf7*z'y (a paint-
ing begun, indeed, seven-
teen years earlier still), in
the background on the
right is depicted a wall
decoration, presumably
arras, with this very sub-
ject of the goddess seated
on a car drawn by flying
doves. In the original
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version the Cupid discharging his arrows is a child
standing on the front of the car itself; whereas,
in the maturer version, a full-grown Cupid, ruddy-
winged, is superbly conspicuous in the centre of
the composition. For the treatment of this par-
ticular Hgure fairly complete details were forth-
coming at Sir Edward Burne-Jones's death. But
for the rest, that ever-to-be regretted fatality had
prevented him supplying much more than the
roughest of water-colour sketches to indicate the
general grouping. This exquisite but unfrnished
work was reproduced in fac-simile in the ^7-/
^47Z7zzz<x/ eight years ago, from the pen of the
present writer. The large scale and dignity of the
composition itself did not admit of anything what-
ever being left to take its chance in the course of
translation into woven arras; not a single detail in
it but had to become the subject of most diligent
care and arrangement. And although it is not


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