DOI issue:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI article:Vallance, Aymer: The Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society at the New Gallery, 1893
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0038
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition, 1893
fabrics are exhibited by Ida Stubbs, Katharine
Ward, and Arthur Silver. The last-named artist's
tulip design, showing the flower with bulb and
roots, is extremely effective, in yellow and orange.
Messrs. Jeffrey & Co. exhibit a stand at which
may be seen block and roller cutting in progress
for the manufacture of hand and machine printed
wall-papers, from designs by Walter Crane, Lewis
Day, Sydney Vacher, and Arthur Silver. Here
are Walter Crane's cartoons for the large panel
paper, The Trio, which, as our readers will re-
THREJE BINDINGS. DESIGNED BY D. S. MACCOLL,
BOUND AND TOOLED BY (MISS) E. K. MACCOLL,
SKETCHED BY ALAN WRIGHT
collect, was noticed in our first issue. We here
reproduce H. Wilson's design for Messrs. Jeffrey
& Co., in which the beautiful drawing of the
tree will commend itself to all. No less admirable,
though quite distinctive, is L. P. Butterfield's tree
design paper for Messrs. Corner & Co., which,
however, does not look so well as it might if it
were printed in more suitable colours. A wall-
paper, designed jointly by Arthur Silver and Harry
Napper, consists of a spray of daffodils, well drawn
and highly conventionalised, if rather thin perhaps
as a filling. The Thicket, here reproduced by
Arthur Silver and J. Illingworth Kay, is a particu-
larly fine piece of drawing; the lines of the stem
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in the filling being made, without violence to the
curves, to pass most dexterously into the frieze,
where they are continued in a way that shows a
fabrics are exhibited by Ida Stubbs, Katharine
Ward, and Arthur Silver. The last-named artist's
tulip design, showing the flower with bulb and
roots, is extremely effective, in yellow and orange.
Messrs. Jeffrey & Co. exhibit a stand at which
may be seen block and roller cutting in progress
for the manufacture of hand and machine printed
wall-papers, from designs by Walter Crane, Lewis
Day, Sydney Vacher, and Arthur Silver. Here
are Walter Crane's cartoons for the large panel
paper, The Trio, which, as our readers will re-
THREJE BINDINGS. DESIGNED BY D. S. MACCOLL,
BOUND AND TOOLED BY (MISS) E. K. MACCOLL,
SKETCHED BY ALAN WRIGHT
collect, was noticed in our first issue. We here
reproduce H. Wilson's design for Messrs. Jeffrey
& Co., in which the beautiful drawing of the
tree will commend itself to all. No less admirable,
though quite distinctive, is L. P. Butterfield's tree
design paper for Messrs. Corner & Co., which,
however, does not look so well as it might if it
were printed in more suitable colours. A wall-
paper, designed jointly by Arthur Silver and Harry
Napper, consists of a spray of daffodils, well drawn
and highly conventionalised, if rather thin perhaps
as a filling. The Thicket, here reproduced by
Arthur Silver and J. Illingworth Kay, is a particu-
larly fine piece of drawing; the lines of the stem
26
in the filling being made, without violence to the
curves, to pass most dexterously into the frieze,
where they are continued in a way that shows a