DOI Heft:
No. 14 (May, 1894)
DOI Artikel:From gallery, studio, and mart, with illustrations, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0073
From Gallery, Studio, and Mart
chronological catalogue of Mr. Seymour Haden's means had its day. When Florence was a nest of
etchings closes finally. artists, when Benvenuto was making the spoon and
- the salt-cellar joys for ever, the door-knocker was
By the kindness of the artists, we are permitted frequently an exquisite work of art. And in many
to reproduce miniatures of Miss Bolingbroke's old London houses you may still see knockers in
which decoration is attempt-
ed and achieved—knockers
which are pleasantly fantastic
or impressively solid. The
modern knocker is a poor
thing, crazy and rickety in ac-
tion, and quite uninteresting
in appearance. Cannot some-
body do for the knocker
what Mr. Gilbert did for the
Mayoral chain ? The ex-
periment would be artisti-
cally interesting, and might
be very remunerative. One
does not forget Mr. Harry
Bates' knocker a year or two
ago, nor those by Mr. C. J.
Allen and Mr. A. E. Lewis at
the present Royal Academy.
"WHEN THE WEARY MOON WAS IN THE WANE" BY FRANK SHORT, R.S.P.E.
(Reduced from the original mezzotint) If dainty trifles possessing
art and style are to be pro-
Mafefactors; Col. Goffis fine Newcastfe-on-Tyne;M.r. cured in London at all, assuredly, one would
Frank Short's When the Weary Moon was in the think, they would be found in Bond Street. And
Wane, an original mezzotint of great beauty ; and if one is content with antiquities, one has small
Mr. Percy Thomas' Dorking
—all shown at the current ex-
hibition of the Royal Society
of Painter-Etchers. The last
is reversed from the etching,
which being done direct
from Nature, not from the
reflection in a mirror, is
topographically misleading.
The beauty of an etching
can never be recaptured in
any other medium, but these
may serve to indicate some
of the qualities which dis-
tinguished the originals, and
made them noticeable in a
collection that held a very
large proportion of excellent
work.
"DORKING" BY PERCY THOMAS, R.S.P.E.
The deep thud of the (Reduced from the original etching)
door-knocker has, in many
a house, given way to the shrill tingling sound ot ground of complaint. If, on the other hand, one
the electric bell, but the knocker has not by any is the victim of the passion for novelty, Bond
59
chronological catalogue of Mr. Seymour Haden's means had its day. When Florence was a nest of
etchings closes finally. artists, when Benvenuto was making the spoon and
- the salt-cellar joys for ever, the door-knocker was
By the kindness of the artists, we are permitted frequently an exquisite work of art. And in many
to reproduce miniatures of Miss Bolingbroke's old London houses you may still see knockers in
which decoration is attempt-
ed and achieved—knockers
which are pleasantly fantastic
or impressively solid. The
modern knocker is a poor
thing, crazy and rickety in ac-
tion, and quite uninteresting
in appearance. Cannot some-
body do for the knocker
what Mr. Gilbert did for the
Mayoral chain ? The ex-
periment would be artisti-
cally interesting, and might
be very remunerative. One
does not forget Mr. Harry
Bates' knocker a year or two
ago, nor those by Mr. C. J.
Allen and Mr. A. E. Lewis at
the present Royal Academy.
"WHEN THE WEARY MOON WAS IN THE WANE" BY FRANK SHORT, R.S.P.E.
(Reduced from the original mezzotint) If dainty trifles possessing
art and style are to be pro-
Mafefactors; Col. Goffis fine Newcastfe-on-Tyne;M.r. cured in London at all, assuredly, one would
Frank Short's When the Weary Moon was in the think, they would be found in Bond Street. And
Wane, an original mezzotint of great beauty ; and if one is content with antiquities, one has small
Mr. Percy Thomas' Dorking
—all shown at the current ex-
hibition of the Royal Society
of Painter-Etchers. The last
is reversed from the etching,
which being done direct
from Nature, not from the
reflection in a mirror, is
topographically misleading.
The beauty of an etching
can never be recaptured in
any other medium, but these
may serve to indicate some
of the qualities which dis-
tinguished the originals, and
made them noticeable in a
collection that held a very
large proportion of excellent
work.
"DORKING" BY PERCY THOMAS, R.S.P.E.
The deep thud of the (Reduced from the original etching)
door-knocker has, in many
a house, given way to the shrill tingling sound ot ground of complaint. If, on the other hand, one
the electric bell, but the knocker has not by any is the victim of the passion for novelty, Bond
59