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#0285
The National Competition
lustre-vase, by Kate Roberts (New Cross), is an derland Rollinson's designs—Sowing and Reap-
excellent example of ordered simplicity ; but ing—have elicited a special word of praise from
George Cartlidge (Hanley), with spirited decoration the judges, which is fully endorsed here, especially
for an earthenware plate, and a very few other for his landscape backgrounds, and another set by
exhibitors, fail to make this section notable. the same hand is also full of promise; a set of
Illustration is not above its average, nor below, decoratively treated tailpieces by T. Todd Blay-
Harold Nelson (Lambeth) is represented by a lock (Poole) are also new and good. Miss Celia
frame of delicate and imaginative work, but he has Levetus, still apparently in statu pupilari, although
now an outside reputation, so that it is needless to her published work dates back several years, has a
reproduce an example here, for his work has often set of designs for Turkish Fairy Tales (Laurence
graced these pages. H. Ospovat (Manchester) and Bullen), lately published. Alice B. Giles (Lam-
has a number of good pictorial book-plates. Sun- beth) shows a very striking drawing of the Gadarene
swine, which is a marked
advance upon her clever
Pied Piper of last year.
A. Jackson (Holloway)
contributes a pleasant
calendar, and the work of
W. C. Penn (Lambeth),
though lacking in
"colour" and crowded
with lines, is interesting,
as are those of Edith Payne
(Birmingham), Margaret
Thompson (New Cross),
Levine Helmer (New
Cross), and F. M. Jones
(Dudley). The designs
by Helen Kuck (Lambeth)
are a little too obviously
inspired by those of Mr.
Charles Robinson. Alto-
gether, Lambeth leads,
and Birmingham, once to
the fore, seems to have
spent its strength in other
departments this year.
Book-covers are many,
and as a whole good, and
almost without exception
practical and not unduly
costly schemes. Even the
lettering, which has in
former years ofttimes
marred the effect of a
good design, is sane and
legible. Perhaps the most
attractive, if not the most
original, is a cover for
Water Babies, by Edgar
George Perman (West-
minster), one of four, all
of which have consider-
DESIC.N FOR TILES RY ALFRED G. WRIGHT aD}e merit. A design by
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lustre-vase, by Kate Roberts (New Cross), is an derland Rollinson's designs—Sowing and Reap-
excellent example of ordered simplicity ; but ing—have elicited a special word of praise from
George Cartlidge (Hanley), with spirited decoration the judges, which is fully endorsed here, especially
for an earthenware plate, and a very few other for his landscape backgrounds, and another set by
exhibitors, fail to make this section notable. the same hand is also full of promise; a set of
Illustration is not above its average, nor below, decoratively treated tailpieces by T. Todd Blay-
Harold Nelson (Lambeth) is represented by a lock (Poole) are also new and good. Miss Celia
frame of delicate and imaginative work, but he has Levetus, still apparently in statu pupilari, although
now an outside reputation, so that it is needless to her published work dates back several years, has a
reproduce an example here, for his work has often set of designs for Turkish Fairy Tales (Laurence
graced these pages. H. Ospovat (Manchester) and Bullen), lately published. Alice B. Giles (Lam-
has a number of good pictorial book-plates. Sun- beth) shows a very striking drawing of the Gadarene
swine, which is a marked
advance upon her clever
Pied Piper of last year.
A. Jackson (Holloway)
contributes a pleasant
calendar, and the work of
W. C. Penn (Lambeth),
though lacking in
"colour" and crowded
with lines, is interesting,
as are those of Edith Payne
(Birmingham), Margaret
Thompson (New Cross),
Levine Helmer (New
Cross), and F. M. Jones
(Dudley). The designs
by Helen Kuck (Lambeth)
are a little too obviously
inspired by those of Mr.
Charles Robinson. Alto-
gether, Lambeth leads,
and Birmingham, once to
the fore, seems to have
spent its strength in other
departments this year.
Book-covers are many,
and as a whole good, and
almost without exception
practical and not unduly
costly schemes. Even the
lettering, which has in
former years ofttimes
marred the effect of a
good design, is sane and
legible. Perhaps the most
attractive, if not the most
original, is a cover for
Water Babies, by Edgar
George Perman (West-
minster), one of four, all
of which have consider-
DESIC.N FOR TILES RY ALFRED G. WRIGHT aD}e merit. A design by
256