DOI Heft:
No. 7 (October, 1893)
DOI Artikel:Current items
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17189#0047
Ctirrent Items
The local press of Dundee endorses the favour-
able French verdict upon Mr. Frank Laing's etch-
ings of Paris which have been lately exhibited in
that town.
The Annual Exhibition at Wolverhampton was
opened by Sir Alfred Hinckman, M.P., who said :
" In this utilitarian age they were apt to think that
merely beautiful things were not useful, but that
the most beautiful thing was the most useful.
After all there was something in this world beside
mere bread and cheese; that man was a benefactor
who cultivated the good tastes of the people. It
was not necessary that good taste should be ex-
pensive. Good taste might be displayed in the
colour of a carpet, or the covering of a wall, and
in an infinite variety of ways, and without being a
in a former number of The Studio. A medal
bestowed on a large group is well deserved,
although the most delightful study, artistically, is
that of a lad, half supported by a column, peering
in a window. Mendelssohn's portrait studies also
deserve praise for their admirably pictorial quality.
Some collotypes by Emile Frechon are so like water-
colour in monochrome that they might almost
deceive an expert.
By permission of Messrs. Liberty we are enabled
to illustrate a group of furniture lately made by
the firm. The sideboard is of oak, with specially
designed wrought copper hinges and handles. In the
upper part, between the leaded glass cupboards, is
a copper sconce, hammered, with a mediaeval ship
in the centre, and the sun and moon on either
A GROUP IN LIBERTY AND CO. S SHOW-ROOMS
drag upon the purse. The effect of good taste side. The 'motto on the frieze is one of Ben
was always beautiful, and was always of great Jonson's epigrams : " It is the fair acceptance
advantage." that creates the entertainment perfect, not the
The Continental Gallery, says an outspoken cates." The chairs are of oak mounted with
critic, " shows that the machine-made picture is not copper, and studded with large nails, and the seats
peculiar to our island." Among some notable covered with leather. The low panelling on either
canvases there are a pastel by Besnard. a fine slde. ls quite Plain> except for a narrow band of
Mesdag, and paintings by Henri Reyer, Courtens, quaint slightly incised carving at the top. The
and Konovine. upper walls are intended to be covered with dull
t~* i * i . * ,. , i Tii. . u- green canvas.
The Exhibition of the Royal Photographic b
Society of Great Britain, now open, is well worth a The last of Mr. Ford Madox Brown s paintings
visit. Among the most beautiful pictures are has just been placed in position at the Manchester
four studies of clouds, by Mrs. Main, which are Town Hall. It represents the defence of Manches-
delightful nature transcripts. Count von Gloeden ter under Bradshaw, the regicide. The unity of
exhibits for the first time in England a selection of purpose which links the various panels into one fine
his nude studies, which are of the type reproduced scheme of decoration can now be appreciated. The
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The local press of Dundee endorses the favour-
able French verdict upon Mr. Frank Laing's etch-
ings of Paris which have been lately exhibited in
that town.
The Annual Exhibition at Wolverhampton was
opened by Sir Alfred Hinckman, M.P., who said :
" In this utilitarian age they were apt to think that
merely beautiful things were not useful, but that
the most beautiful thing was the most useful.
After all there was something in this world beside
mere bread and cheese; that man was a benefactor
who cultivated the good tastes of the people. It
was not necessary that good taste should be ex-
pensive. Good taste might be displayed in the
colour of a carpet, or the covering of a wall, and
in an infinite variety of ways, and without being a
in a former number of The Studio. A medal
bestowed on a large group is well deserved,
although the most delightful study, artistically, is
that of a lad, half supported by a column, peering
in a window. Mendelssohn's portrait studies also
deserve praise for their admirably pictorial quality.
Some collotypes by Emile Frechon are so like water-
colour in monochrome that they might almost
deceive an expert.
By permission of Messrs. Liberty we are enabled
to illustrate a group of furniture lately made by
the firm. The sideboard is of oak, with specially
designed wrought copper hinges and handles. In the
upper part, between the leaded glass cupboards, is
a copper sconce, hammered, with a mediaeval ship
in the centre, and the sun and moon on either
A GROUP IN LIBERTY AND CO. S SHOW-ROOMS
drag upon the purse. The effect of good taste side. The 'motto on the frieze is one of Ben
was always beautiful, and was always of great Jonson's epigrams : " It is the fair acceptance
advantage." that creates the entertainment perfect, not the
The Continental Gallery, says an outspoken cates." The chairs are of oak mounted with
critic, " shows that the machine-made picture is not copper, and studded with large nails, and the seats
peculiar to our island." Among some notable covered with leather. The low panelling on either
canvases there are a pastel by Besnard. a fine slde. ls quite Plain> except for a narrow band of
Mesdag, and paintings by Henri Reyer, Courtens, quaint slightly incised carving at the top. The
and Konovine. upper walls are intended to be covered with dull
t~* i * i . * ,. , i Tii. . u- green canvas.
The Exhibition of the Royal Photographic b
Society of Great Britain, now open, is well worth a The last of Mr. Ford Madox Brown s paintings
visit. Among the most beautiful pictures are has just been placed in position at the Manchester
four studies of clouds, by Mrs. Main, which are Town Hall. It represents the defence of Manches-
delightful nature transcripts. Count von Gloeden ter under Bradshaw, the regicide. The unity of
exhibits for the first time in England a selection of purpose which links the various panels into one fine
his nude studies, which are of the type reproduced scheme of decoration can now be appreciated. The
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