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Awards in " The Studio " Prize Competitions
several early sketches, and The Sphinx, are perhaps » WARDS IN "THE STUDIO"
the most satisfactory. It is an indispensable PRIZE COMPETITIONS
volume for Rossetti students, and although one / \
regrets the absence of The Beloved, The Blessed fmmm\ Design for a Cloth Binding.
Damozel, Dante's Dream—in fact, of almost all the A. (A XV.)
chief works of the master—yet their absence is com- The designs for a cloth binding for a volume of
pensated for to a great extent by the new material The Studio were numerous and up to a good corn-
drawn upon for illustration. Fair Women, a charm- mercial level; but for the most part neither distin-
ing fantasy by William Sharp, with pictures from guished in idea, nor peculiarly effective as bindings,
the Grafton Galleries, and The New Forest, capitally A large proportion failed entirely to observe the
illustrated, are the last issues of this most delightful advice given in the instructions. Some consisted
publication. of a figure in outline, without stating whether it was
Green Pastures. The Elizabethan Library, to be worked in gold or colour. Yet the different
7 ^mmmm^'
FIRST PRIZE "PEN AND INK SECOND PRIZE
{London : Elliot Stock.)—The six volumes of this
most charmingly produced series deserves notice,
although its externals chiefly concern us here.
The olive-green cloth powdered with the gold fleur
de lys of its binding, its excellent printing, and the
comfortable pocket size, are worthy of the choice
passages for Robert Green, although the one sen-
tence which concerns painting, that one is able to
discover therein " the painter casteth his fairest
colour over the foulest board," hardly justifies its
consideration technically. The quaint conceits of
the old writers drawn upon for this series—Bacon,
Breton, Sidney, Raleigh, and Spenser—might supply
many an unhackneyed motto for a picture.
treatment demanded by gold, which tells as white
on a dark cloth, and a dark colour which tells
as black on a light cloth, should have been clearly
indicated. Again, many competitors covered the
whole space at their disposal with ornament which,
if intended for gold, would be costly to obtain an
effect not adequate.
First Prize (Three guineas')—See-a-Aye (Charles
A. Allen, 50 Lome Street Kidderminster); to be
illustrated later.
Second Prize {One and a half guineas)—Scot
(Sophie Pumphrey, Woodstock Road, Moseley,
Birmingham). {Illustrated.)
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several early sketches, and The Sphinx, are perhaps » WARDS IN "THE STUDIO"
the most satisfactory. It is an indispensable PRIZE COMPETITIONS
volume for Rossetti students, and although one / \
regrets the absence of The Beloved, The Blessed fmmm\ Design for a Cloth Binding.
Damozel, Dante's Dream—in fact, of almost all the A. (A XV.)
chief works of the master—yet their absence is com- The designs for a cloth binding for a volume of
pensated for to a great extent by the new material The Studio were numerous and up to a good corn-
drawn upon for illustration. Fair Women, a charm- mercial level; but for the most part neither distin-
ing fantasy by William Sharp, with pictures from guished in idea, nor peculiarly effective as bindings,
the Grafton Galleries, and The New Forest, capitally A large proportion failed entirely to observe the
illustrated, are the last issues of this most delightful advice given in the instructions. Some consisted
publication. of a figure in outline, without stating whether it was
Green Pastures. The Elizabethan Library, to be worked in gold or colour. Yet the different
7 ^mmmm^'
FIRST PRIZE "PEN AND INK SECOND PRIZE
{London : Elliot Stock.)—The six volumes of this
most charmingly produced series deserves notice,
although its externals chiefly concern us here.
The olive-green cloth powdered with the gold fleur
de lys of its binding, its excellent printing, and the
comfortable pocket size, are worthy of the choice
passages for Robert Green, although the one sen-
tence which concerns painting, that one is able to
discover therein " the painter casteth his fairest
colour over the foulest board," hardly justifies its
consideration technically. The quaint conceits of
the old writers drawn upon for this series—Bacon,
Breton, Sidney, Raleigh, and Spenser—might supply
many an unhackneyed motto for a picture.
treatment demanded by gold, which tells as white
on a dark cloth, and a dark colour which tells
as black on a light cloth, should have been clearly
indicated. Again, many competitors covered the
whole space at their disposal with ornament which,
if intended for gold, would be costly to obtain an
effect not adequate.
First Prize (Three guineas')—See-a-Aye (Charles
A. Allen, 50 Lome Street Kidderminster); to be
illustrated later.
Second Prize {One and a half guineas)—Scot
(Sophie Pumphrey, Woodstock Road, Moseley,
Birmingham). {Illustrated.)
xxxvii