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landscape mostly of a character peculiar to the low-
lands. It is the country of Paulsen’s birth—the
Sleswic-Holstein marshes on the flat, dreary coast of
the North Sea, with their bleak houses and stern
Frisian peasantry, whose character seems to har-
monise with their environment; churches of ancient
lore, and here and there a forlorn fisherman’s hut
among the sweeping sand-hills of the downs. The
Stormy Landscape—Sleswic-Holstein (below) gives
us a specimen of this native tone in the young
painter’s lines, of black and white and mezzotint.
The air is of a half-tone brightness, the stiff breeze
bending the branches of the trees into rough
clusters of weird, dramatic eloquence. The
“ survival of the fittest ” seems to be written in
bold silhouette upon the horizon of nature.
Sometimes we find figure sketches of quaint folk
from street or cabaret, singing or dancing to flute
or violin. A certain dreariness and morbid humour
seems also to pervade these little figure composi-
tions of a chance meeting or a happy hour of
bohemian life.
Our other illustration (page 75) is from a plate
of unusual size. It is the back entrance of an old
Gothic castle at Ghent, the castle of the Count of
Flanders. The high walls and stern turrets of
this feudal stronghold stand in fierce and gloomy
uprightness against the sky of hazy clouds, telling
a story of bygone days, with bygone strife and
deeds of pluck and chivalry. The foreground of
this large etching is peopled by a few indistinct
figures on a bare, broad ground, adding by this
contrast all the more to the force of the vertical
lines of staunch mediaeval architecture. The plate
was etched after a pencil sketch and enlarged, as it
were, to its peculiar force by the blending of im-
pression and fancy. W. S.
4 MSTERDAM.—In the last Winter Special
/% Number of The Studio, entitled “ Pen,
/ A Pencil, and Chalk,” we gave some ex-
■L V. amples of pen drawing by Mr. Wencke-
bach, who has long held a foremost position among
Dutch draughtsmen. The drawing now reproduced
is one executed to illustrate a volume, “Blonde
Duinen,” and exhibits the same sound draughts-
“ A STORMY LANDSCAPE, SLESWIC-HOLSTEIN’” FROM AN ETCHING BY INGWER C. TAULSEN
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landscape mostly of a character peculiar to the low-
lands. It is the country of Paulsen’s birth—the
Sleswic-Holstein marshes on the flat, dreary coast of
the North Sea, with their bleak houses and stern
Frisian peasantry, whose character seems to har-
monise with their environment; churches of ancient
lore, and here and there a forlorn fisherman’s hut
among the sweeping sand-hills of the downs. The
Stormy Landscape—Sleswic-Holstein (below) gives
us a specimen of this native tone in the young
painter’s lines, of black and white and mezzotint.
The air is of a half-tone brightness, the stiff breeze
bending the branches of the trees into rough
clusters of weird, dramatic eloquence. The
“ survival of the fittest ” seems to be written in
bold silhouette upon the horizon of nature.
Sometimes we find figure sketches of quaint folk
from street or cabaret, singing or dancing to flute
or violin. A certain dreariness and morbid humour
seems also to pervade these little figure composi-
tions of a chance meeting or a happy hour of
bohemian life.
Our other illustration (page 75) is from a plate
of unusual size. It is the back entrance of an old
Gothic castle at Ghent, the castle of the Count of
Flanders. The high walls and stern turrets of
this feudal stronghold stand in fierce and gloomy
uprightness against the sky of hazy clouds, telling
a story of bygone days, with bygone strife and
deeds of pluck and chivalry. The foreground of
this large etching is peopled by a few indistinct
figures on a bare, broad ground, adding by this
contrast all the more to the force of the vertical
lines of staunch mediaeval architecture. The plate
was etched after a pencil sketch and enlarged, as it
were, to its peculiar force by the blending of im-
pression and fancy. W. S.
4 MSTERDAM.—In the last Winter Special
/% Number of The Studio, entitled “ Pen,
/ A Pencil, and Chalk,” we gave some ex-
■L V. amples of pen drawing by Mr. Wencke-
bach, who has long held a foremost position among
Dutch draughtsmen. The drawing now reproduced
is one executed to illustrate a volume, “Blonde
Duinen,” and exhibits the same sound draughts-
“ A STORMY LANDSCAPE, SLESWIC-HOLSTEIN’” FROM AN ETCHING BY INGWER C. TAULSEN
76