DOI Heft:
No. 18 (September, 1894)
DOI Artikel:From gallery, studio, and mart, with illustrations, [6]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17190#0210
From Gallery, Studio, and Mart
Garrick, the Haymarket, or the St. James's in a his pupil, Mr. Alfred Gilbert. Whatever technical
spirit of profound gratitude. merits the figure of Bunyan may possess, it lacks
- dignity and imagination ; the statue of Howard, on
Even now the scene-painter, in spite of the fact the other hand, is conspicuously dignified if not
that his name most properly finds its place on the remarkably vivacious. But it is in the treatment
of the two pedestals that the improvement of the
new over the old work is most marked.
The Bunyan pedestal is merely a block of stone
of ugly shape, in which bas-reliefs have been placed
apparently by a man from a stonemason's yard.
The base of the Howard monument is a serious
and extremely able attempt at decoration. Whether
the composition is altogether happy, whether some,
of the lines are not unfortunate, is a matter of
question. But the details are really exquisite, as
beautiful as any that have come from Mr. Gilbert's
hands. Judging from the examples at Bedford, the
sculpture of 1894 is better than that of twenty
years ago. -
We are pleased to be allowed to reproduce a
very dainty little book-plate by Mr. J. Walter West,
of The Sundials, Northwood, whose graceful cover
for an amateur magazine, The Portfolio, was illus-
trated in a previous number. Also a very typical
" library interior," designed for Mr. Ernest Brown,
a peculiarly good example of its class.
a book-plate BY j. walter west
playbill, has not succeeded in obtaining due
recognition for his work. The production and
execution of a great stage picture is surely as
difficult a matter as the painting of an average
Academy landscape. Yet the painters of even the
worst thing in a gold frame are " artists," while
Messrs. Telbin, Hawes Craven, Harker, and the
rest are not infrequently mentioned in the same
breath as the wig-maker, limelight man, costumier,
and property-maker.
The two monuments which adorn the streets of
Bedford enable one to compare the sculpture of
twenty years ago with that of to-day. Neither of
the subjects presented to the artist the tragic diffi-
culty of modern costume; Bunyan wore the severe
but not unpicturesque costume of the Baptist of
the seventeenth century, while John Howard, the
philanthropist, is represented in the dignified cos-
tume of a gentleman of the latter part of the last
■century. The Bunyan statue is by Boehm, while
the Howard memorial comes from the studio of a book-plate
192
BY hugh thomson
Garrick, the Haymarket, or the St. James's in a his pupil, Mr. Alfred Gilbert. Whatever technical
spirit of profound gratitude. merits the figure of Bunyan may possess, it lacks
- dignity and imagination ; the statue of Howard, on
Even now the scene-painter, in spite of the fact the other hand, is conspicuously dignified if not
that his name most properly finds its place on the remarkably vivacious. But it is in the treatment
of the two pedestals that the improvement of the
new over the old work is most marked.
The Bunyan pedestal is merely a block of stone
of ugly shape, in which bas-reliefs have been placed
apparently by a man from a stonemason's yard.
The base of the Howard monument is a serious
and extremely able attempt at decoration. Whether
the composition is altogether happy, whether some,
of the lines are not unfortunate, is a matter of
question. But the details are really exquisite, as
beautiful as any that have come from Mr. Gilbert's
hands. Judging from the examples at Bedford, the
sculpture of 1894 is better than that of twenty
years ago. -
We are pleased to be allowed to reproduce a
very dainty little book-plate by Mr. J. Walter West,
of The Sundials, Northwood, whose graceful cover
for an amateur magazine, The Portfolio, was illus-
trated in a previous number. Also a very typical
" library interior," designed for Mr. Ernest Brown,
a peculiarly good example of its class.
a book-plate BY j. walter west
playbill, has not succeeded in obtaining due
recognition for his work. The production and
execution of a great stage picture is surely as
difficult a matter as the painting of an average
Academy landscape. Yet the painters of even the
worst thing in a gold frame are " artists," while
Messrs. Telbin, Hawes Craven, Harker, and the
rest are not infrequently mentioned in the same
breath as the wig-maker, limelight man, costumier,
and property-maker.
The two monuments which adorn the streets of
Bedford enable one to compare the sculpture of
twenty years ago with that of to-day. Neither of
the subjects presented to the artist the tragic diffi-
culty of modern costume; Bunyan wore the severe
but not unpicturesque costume of the Baptist of
the seventeenth century, while John Howard, the
philanthropist, is represented in the dignified cos-
tume of a gentleman of the latter part of the last
■century. The Bunyan statue is by Boehm, while
the Howard memorial comes from the studio of a book-plate
192
BY hugh thomson