DOI Heft:
No. 42 (September, 1896)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: The national competition, South Kensington 1896
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17297#0247
National Competition: South Kensington
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he MayoMayoress
OF BIRMIHOHftM
(MTE M13 J&med Smith)
seno greeting
Jp* Jttf
elsewhere show clever illus-
trations among their stud-
ents, refrain from submit-
ting work to the national
competition ? This is one
of the unsolved puzzles that
often confronts an outsider
here. A model for a lectern
(227) by Fritz Roselieb
(Lambeth) merits a word of
praise ; as an effort to impart
a certain novelty to a hack-
neyed form,it has succeeded
fairly well. Two panels
with the subjects " Plough-
ing " and "Reaping" in
low modelled relief (215)
by Douglas Goldie Crocket design for an invitation card by Winifred smith, Birmingham
(Holloway) are admirably
treated ; indeed, but that they lack architectural doline Williams (South Kensington) are also corn-
framing they would have probably won higher mendable; other pleasing tiles, intended for low
honours. The lines of the whip and the traces relief in single colour highly glazed (346) are by
of the horses in the first are planned most Albert E. V. Lilley (Wolverhampton) which, simple
happily. A model of a street-lamp, for the centre as they are, are entirely satisfactory ; but the tiles
of an open space (618) by John W. Gillman (813) by Lilian M. Simpson (South Kensington)
(Newcastle-under-Lyme), if not very novel, yet dis- cannot be dismissed by faint general praise—they
plays an admirable sense of proportion and ripe are novel and delightful and veritably creations
knowledge of the style chosen. Three low-relief and lead one to regret the absence of a larger work
sketches in plaster, with subjects, "Field work, —which rumour has it—was excluded for technical
digging and hauling in a net" (721) by Ruby W. reason to the regret of those in power. This very
Levick (South Kensington) are full of promise, clever student shows in a casket (812) that the
Some modelled tiles with figures (735) by Gwen- honours she has reaped in former years have not
made her careless ; the ex-
quisite daintiness of her
conception and the delicate
grace of execution, force
one to break into rather
more florid praise, that
could fairly be bestowed on
many items not less worthy.
A panel, Labour (668), by
Fred H. Martin (Ply-
mouth), is so full of excel-
lent qualities, that its slight
defects, which are obvious
enough, ought not to stand
in the way of genuine ap-
proval. The dramatic force
of the idea is accentuated
by the lines of the composi-
tion, which would be no
doubt still more effective in
full-size. Another panel of
design for an invitation card by winifred smith, Birmingham bell-ringers (437)) by Fran-
228
od IU stYotMeiiryGlntlemeh ^V=> 'V-
in
he MayoMayoress
OF BIRMIHOHftM
(MTE M13 J&med Smith)
seno greeting
Jp* Jttf
elsewhere show clever illus-
trations among their stud-
ents, refrain from submit-
ting work to the national
competition ? This is one
of the unsolved puzzles that
often confronts an outsider
here. A model for a lectern
(227) by Fritz Roselieb
(Lambeth) merits a word of
praise ; as an effort to impart
a certain novelty to a hack-
neyed form,it has succeeded
fairly well. Two panels
with the subjects " Plough-
ing " and "Reaping" in
low modelled relief (215)
by Douglas Goldie Crocket design for an invitation card by Winifred smith, Birmingham
(Holloway) are admirably
treated ; indeed, but that they lack architectural doline Williams (South Kensington) are also corn-
framing they would have probably won higher mendable; other pleasing tiles, intended for low
honours. The lines of the whip and the traces relief in single colour highly glazed (346) are by
of the horses in the first are planned most Albert E. V. Lilley (Wolverhampton) which, simple
happily. A model of a street-lamp, for the centre as they are, are entirely satisfactory ; but the tiles
of an open space (618) by John W. Gillman (813) by Lilian M. Simpson (South Kensington)
(Newcastle-under-Lyme), if not very novel, yet dis- cannot be dismissed by faint general praise—they
plays an admirable sense of proportion and ripe are novel and delightful and veritably creations
knowledge of the style chosen. Three low-relief and lead one to regret the absence of a larger work
sketches in plaster, with subjects, "Field work, —which rumour has it—was excluded for technical
digging and hauling in a net" (721) by Ruby W. reason to the regret of those in power. This very
Levick (South Kensington) are full of promise, clever student shows in a casket (812) that the
Some modelled tiles with figures (735) by Gwen- honours she has reaped in former years have not
made her careless ; the ex-
quisite daintiness of her
conception and the delicate
grace of execution, force
one to break into rather
more florid praise, that
could fairly be bestowed on
many items not less worthy.
A panel, Labour (668), by
Fred H. Martin (Ply-
mouth), is so full of excel-
lent qualities, that its slight
defects, which are obvious
enough, ought not to stand
in the way of genuine ap-
proval. The dramatic force
of the idea is accentuated
by the lines of the composi-
tion, which would be no
doubt still more effective in
full-size. Another panel of
design for an invitation card by winifred smith, Birmingham bell-ringers (437)) by Fran-
228