DOI Heft:
No. 28 (July, 1895)
DOI Artikel:W., G.: The Manchester arts and crafts: second exhibition$nElektronische Ressource
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17294#0157
Manchester Arts and Crafts
described and illustrated in The Studio—
especially numbers of examples by Messrs. William
Morris, Cobden-Sanderson, George Frampton,
A.R.A., R. Lethaby, W. B. Richmond, A.R.A.,
Henry Holiday, and others from the last Arts and
Crafts at the New Gallery.
Among objects not there (so far as memory may
be trusted) are two superb panels of tapestry, the
Salisbury Angels and Ministering Angels, designed
by Sir E. Burne-Jones, and executed by William
Morris & Co., together with a replica (apparently)
copper bowl Birmingham guild of handicraft of the famous Star of Bethlehem tapestry for
Exeter College, Oxford. The same firm exhibited
a fine inlaid piano (p. 132), some beautiful embroideries, designed
by William Morris and worked by the Misses Basilio, and a
splendid example of the "Hammersmith" carpets. Two designs
for bronze tablets, The Nativity and The Entombment (p. 129), by
Sir E. Burne-Jones, Bart., are here illustrated; other works by
the same artist included several of his finest cartoons for stained
glass.
The Kelmscott Press had a case of their publications, which are
too familiar to need description; the effect of the thirty-nine
volumes, opened side by side, was certainly sumptuous in the
extreme, and worthy of the best original work of the period they
follow.
The very fine display of metal-work, by W. A. Benson & Co.,
needs little comment, for the lamps and other domestic articles
made at the Eyot Works, Chiswick, are known to all lovers of
beautiful objects. An over-mantel (p. 134) requires some descrip-
tion, as the sketch cannot be trusted to explain that the whole
structure is of wood painted white, with brass open work tracery,
in the panels above and the heads of the looking-glass ; below
copper bowl
birmingham guild of handicraft
H p Clifford
w,
lock-plate, designed by james smithies fireplace in iron and hammered copper, designed by james smithies
138
described and illustrated in The Studio—
especially numbers of examples by Messrs. William
Morris, Cobden-Sanderson, George Frampton,
A.R.A., R. Lethaby, W. B. Richmond, A.R.A.,
Henry Holiday, and others from the last Arts and
Crafts at the New Gallery.
Among objects not there (so far as memory may
be trusted) are two superb panels of tapestry, the
Salisbury Angels and Ministering Angels, designed
by Sir E. Burne-Jones, and executed by William
Morris & Co., together with a replica (apparently)
copper bowl Birmingham guild of handicraft of the famous Star of Bethlehem tapestry for
Exeter College, Oxford. The same firm exhibited
a fine inlaid piano (p. 132), some beautiful embroideries, designed
by William Morris and worked by the Misses Basilio, and a
splendid example of the "Hammersmith" carpets. Two designs
for bronze tablets, The Nativity and The Entombment (p. 129), by
Sir E. Burne-Jones, Bart., are here illustrated; other works by
the same artist included several of his finest cartoons for stained
glass.
The Kelmscott Press had a case of their publications, which are
too familiar to need description; the effect of the thirty-nine
volumes, opened side by side, was certainly sumptuous in the
extreme, and worthy of the best original work of the period they
follow.
The very fine display of metal-work, by W. A. Benson & Co.,
needs little comment, for the lamps and other domestic articles
made at the Eyot Works, Chiswick, are known to all lovers of
beautiful objects. An over-mantel (p. 134) requires some descrip-
tion, as the sketch cannot be trusted to explain that the whole
structure is of wood painted white, with brass open work tracery,
in the panels above and the heads of the looking-glass ; below
copper bowl
birmingham guild of handicraft
H p Clifford
w,
lock-plate, designed by james smithies fireplace in iron and hammered copper, designed by james smithies
138