DOI Heft:
No. 54 (September, 1897)
DOI Artikel:The national competition: South Kensington, 1897$nElektronische Ressource
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18389#0281
The National Competition
first bay in the room devoted to original designs and actually combined in a stencil shown at an
is one of the strongest in the show, although it exhibition at Garlic Hill, and, if memory is to be
contains almost the only important award that trusted, reproduced in one of the architectural
is calculated to arouse diverse opinions, which newspapers. For a boy of fifteen it is a work
is the design, awarded a gold medal, by Geoffrey worthy of hearty praise, yet one regrets that the
Alan Baker (Canterbury). The filling of this examiners, whose protest appears to be directed
stencil is admirable in form and colour, but the against the introduction of figures, did not remem-
frieze is merely a combination slightly varied ber how evidently the convention employed was
of two designs by Mr. Arthur Silver, illustrated founded upon Mr. Silver's design. An all-over
on pp. 181 and 183, vol. v. of The Studio, pattern with dragons, by Meta Lovgreen (New-
castle-on-Tyne), is vigorous
and practical; another by
A. J. Hardman (Wolver-
hampton), with fish, is
really fine, both in pattern
and colour, the latter too
deep and broken to be
effective in reproduction,
otherwise we should have
endeavoured to illustrate
it. A clever and admirably
simple frieze of figures by
James Durden (South Ken-
sington), and some sten-
cilled book - plates by
Beatrice Waldram (Clap-
ton) ; a most ingeniously
schemed frieze and filling,
the latter weak by com-
parison, by Jennie H.
Wood (Manchester), and
others by A. J. Madeley
(Maidstone) and C. H.
Rogers (Royal College of
Art), are among many
capital works in stencil,
most of them actually
carried out in the fabric.
In carpets, Robert Pater-
son (Glasgow) has taken
DESIGN FOR wall-paper BY HERBERT i). RICH TER a S°ld medal fOT *
252
first bay in the room devoted to original designs and actually combined in a stencil shown at an
is one of the strongest in the show, although it exhibition at Garlic Hill, and, if memory is to be
contains almost the only important award that trusted, reproduced in one of the architectural
is calculated to arouse diverse opinions, which newspapers. For a boy of fifteen it is a work
is the design, awarded a gold medal, by Geoffrey worthy of hearty praise, yet one regrets that the
Alan Baker (Canterbury). The filling of this examiners, whose protest appears to be directed
stencil is admirable in form and colour, but the against the introduction of figures, did not remem-
frieze is merely a combination slightly varied ber how evidently the convention employed was
of two designs by Mr. Arthur Silver, illustrated founded upon Mr. Silver's design. An all-over
on pp. 181 and 183, vol. v. of The Studio, pattern with dragons, by Meta Lovgreen (New-
castle-on-Tyne), is vigorous
and practical; another by
A. J. Hardman (Wolver-
hampton), with fish, is
really fine, both in pattern
and colour, the latter too
deep and broken to be
effective in reproduction,
otherwise we should have
endeavoured to illustrate
it. A clever and admirably
simple frieze of figures by
James Durden (South Ken-
sington), and some sten-
cilled book - plates by
Beatrice Waldram (Clap-
ton) ; a most ingeniously
schemed frieze and filling,
the latter weak by com-
parison, by Jennie H.
Wood (Manchester), and
others by A. J. Madeley
(Maidstone) and C. H.
Rogers (Royal College of
Art), are among many
capital works in stencil,
most of them actually
carried out in the fabric.
In carpets, Robert Pater-
son (Glasgow) has taken
DESIGN FOR wall-paper BY HERBERT i). RICH TER a S°ld medal fOT *
252