DOI Heft:
No. 51 (June 1897)
DOI Artikel:Some recent work by Th. van Hoytema
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0045
Some Recent Hark by T. ran Hoy tenia
embroidered screen executed by mrs. van hoytema from designs by t. van hoytema
equally unlike birds as a Japanese would record viously existing. It is a pleasure to make them
them, they assume a distinct value; because they known to a wider audience in England. The two
add to the art of the world something not pre- earlier boots were obviously lithographed, and unless
memory is at fault, in some
previous announcement it
was stated that the artist
drew them himself upon the
stone. If this be true, it is
possible that his technical
mastery is responsible for the
only quality open to criticism,
which is a fondness for super-
imposed cross-hatching and
tints. The charm of Mr.
Walter Crane's mosaic of flat
colours in his early toy-books,
or of the graduated wash of
Mr. J. D. Batten, and Mr.
Morley Fletcher's colour-
prints, both satisfy one more
entirely. In each the limita-
tions of woodcut printing are
evident, and the ordered re-
sult is more simple, yet more
enjoyable. But this is no
doubt partly due to the scar-
city of coloured lithography
done by the artist himself,
the millions of chromo-litho-
turkeys from a drawing by t. van hoytema graphs extant being almost,
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embroidered screen executed by mrs. van hoytema from designs by t. van hoytema
equally unlike birds as a Japanese would record viously existing. It is a pleasure to make them
them, they assume a distinct value; because they known to a wider audience in England. The two
add to the art of the world something not pre- earlier boots were obviously lithographed, and unless
memory is at fault, in some
previous announcement it
was stated that the artist
drew them himself upon the
stone. If this be true, it is
possible that his technical
mastery is responsible for the
only quality open to criticism,
which is a fondness for super-
imposed cross-hatching and
tints. The charm of Mr.
Walter Crane's mosaic of flat
colours in his early toy-books,
or of the graduated wash of
Mr. J. D. Batten, and Mr.
Morley Fletcher's colour-
prints, both satisfy one more
entirely. In each the limita-
tions of woodcut printing are
evident, and the ordered re-
sult is more simple, yet more
enjoyable. But this is no
doubt partly due to the scar-
city of coloured lithography
done by the artist himself,
the millions of chromo-litho-
turkeys from a drawing by t. van hoytema graphs extant being almost,
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