DOI issue:
No. 59 (February, 1898)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18391#0063
Studio-Talk
example, in the choir aisles of Amiens Cathedral.
Mr. II. C. Fehr (whose large bronze group, Perseus
rescuing Andromeda, was purchased under the
terms of the ('hanlrey Bequest in 1894) had some
shai\' in the Trocadero decorations already noticed
in The Studio, so that these reliefs are not his
first experiments in coloured sculpture. It is good
to find a provincial town anxious to decorate its
public buildings worthily. In the absence of a
really great school of fresco-painters—and the
climatic conditions of the British Isles seem to
forbid even the probability of one arising—it is
wise to enlist the services of our younger sculptors
in a branch of their craft which is more in har-
mony with many of our quasi-Gothic or Renais-
sance buildings than any other method of wall
decoration we have yet employed. Local his-
tory lends itself readily to such treatment, and
work thus executed may fall short of the dignity
of the finest bas-relief in white marble and yet
be entirely worthy of its accessory part in the
whole scheme of interior, or even of exterior,
decoration.
EDINBURGH.—A good deal has been
done in recent years for the- preserva
tion of the old town of Edinburgh,
notably by the Town and Gown Asso-
ciation, which has adapted some of the
fine old houses as students' residences under the
University Hall scheme. Quite apart from his-
toric interest, the splendid situation of these houses
on the Castle Hill renders them worthy not only of
redemption from squalor, but of the great care and
architectural skill that have been bestowed on their
restoration. The internal decoration is progress-
ing deliberately, the work being placed in the
hands of such young local artists as have shown
skill in mural painting. Some of the decorations
by John Duncan and C. H. Mackie have
already been described and illustrated in The
Studio. The last piece of work completed is
the painting of the dining-hall of St. Giles' House
by Miss Hill Burton.
The room is about 30 feet by 20. The west
side is occupied by a range of windows ; on the
example, in the choir aisles of Amiens Cathedral.
Mr. II. C. Fehr (whose large bronze group, Perseus
rescuing Andromeda, was purchased under the
terms of the ('hanlrey Bequest in 1894) had some
shai\' in the Trocadero decorations already noticed
in The Studio, so that these reliefs are not his
first experiments in coloured sculpture. It is good
to find a provincial town anxious to decorate its
public buildings worthily. In the absence of a
really great school of fresco-painters—and the
climatic conditions of the British Isles seem to
forbid even the probability of one arising—it is
wise to enlist the services of our younger sculptors
in a branch of their craft which is more in har-
mony with many of our quasi-Gothic or Renais-
sance buildings than any other method of wall
decoration we have yet employed. Local his-
tory lends itself readily to such treatment, and
work thus executed may fall short of the dignity
of the finest bas-relief in white marble and yet
be entirely worthy of its accessory part in the
whole scheme of interior, or even of exterior,
decoration.
EDINBURGH.—A good deal has been
done in recent years for the- preserva
tion of the old town of Edinburgh,
notably by the Town and Gown Asso-
ciation, which has adapted some of the
fine old houses as students' residences under the
University Hall scheme. Quite apart from his-
toric interest, the splendid situation of these houses
on the Castle Hill renders them worthy not only of
redemption from squalor, but of the great care and
architectural skill that have been bestowed on their
restoration. The internal decoration is progress-
ing deliberately, the work being placed in the
hands of such young local artists as have shown
skill in mural painting. Some of the decorations
by John Duncan and C. H. Mackie have
already been described and illustrated in The
Studio. The last piece of work completed is
the painting of the dining-hall of St. Giles' House
by Miss Hill Burton.
The room is about 30 feet by 20. The west
side is occupied by a range of windows ; on the