DOI Heft:
No. 66 (September, 1898)
DOI Artikel:White, Gleeson: The national competition, South Kensington, 1898
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21969#0318
The National Competition
Embroideries are numerous, and at times good.
The panels by Offlow Scattergood (Birmingham)
have gained a gold medal and the Princess of
Wales’ Scholarship : two are shown in finished work,
the rest in designs. Panels for embroidered fire-
screens by Amy Chater (Leicester) and Winifred
Windley (Leicester) ■ a quilt by A. M. L. Jones
(Dublin), a nightdress sachet by Sadie Turner
(Battersea), and a banner, with the motto, “Consider
the Lilies,” by Robert A. Dawson (South Kensing-
ton), call for no especial remark, good as they are.
A design for an embroidered book-cover, also in
the finished work, by R. A. Dawson (South Kensing-
ton), is distinguished for its simplicity and admir-
able effect; an altar front (possibly), by Hilda M.
Pemberton (New Cross), is entirely admirable;
designs for needlework by Gertrude Blackburn
(Bradford) shown also in the finished work, by
Jessie Harman (Leicester), by Edith O. Armour
(Battersea), by May Shepherd (Nottingham), by
Alice Appleton (Hammersmith), Jessie McGeoch
(Birmingham), Alice Tangye (Birmingham), Eva
Skoulding-Cann (Putney) (whose admirable piece
of embroidery is here illustrated), Grace Boston
(Battersea), all deserve fuller notice. A bed-spread
by Mildred Gregory (Leicester), with its symbols
of the four Evangelists, is spoilt by a very weak
angel, otherwise the scheme of white applique on
blue is agreeable enough.
Lace is generously represented and, so far as the
limits of the material permit, shows the prevailing
influence in the air ; but in lace the design is best
when least obvious, and for a substance intended
for use in soft folds, the pattern as it appears, flat
and rigid in a drawing, is of far less importance
than usual. Space forbids even a list of the prize-
winners in this section, where Alice Jacob (Dublin)
won a gold medal, and silver medals fell to a large
number, including Edith James (Bradford) for a
fan, Joseph Else (Nottingham), and many others.
In modelled ornament, an ambitious monument
by Michael J. Shortall (Dublin) inspires respect
rather than admiration. A very clever panel in
bas-relief by Ernest W. Light (South Kensington),
a still more novel and entirely delightful frieze for
a nursery by the same hands, show that the home
schools include at least one student who has
humour and imagination as well as scholarship.
DESIGN FOR THE DECORATION OF AN ENTRANCE HALL
28o
BY G. M. ELLGOOD (Holloway)
Embroideries are numerous, and at times good.
The panels by Offlow Scattergood (Birmingham)
have gained a gold medal and the Princess of
Wales’ Scholarship : two are shown in finished work,
the rest in designs. Panels for embroidered fire-
screens by Amy Chater (Leicester) and Winifred
Windley (Leicester) ■ a quilt by A. M. L. Jones
(Dublin), a nightdress sachet by Sadie Turner
(Battersea), and a banner, with the motto, “Consider
the Lilies,” by Robert A. Dawson (South Kensing-
ton), call for no especial remark, good as they are.
A design for an embroidered book-cover, also in
the finished work, by R. A. Dawson (South Kensing-
ton), is distinguished for its simplicity and admir-
able effect; an altar front (possibly), by Hilda M.
Pemberton (New Cross), is entirely admirable;
designs for needlework by Gertrude Blackburn
(Bradford) shown also in the finished work, by
Jessie Harman (Leicester), by Edith O. Armour
(Battersea), by May Shepherd (Nottingham), by
Alice Appleton (Hammersmith), Jessie McGeoch
(Birmingham), Alice Tangye (Birmingham), Eva
Skoulding-Cann (Putney) (whose admirable piece
of embroidery is here illustrated), Grace Boston
(Battersea), all deserve fuller notice. A bed-spread
by Mildred Gregory (Leicester), with its symbols
of the four Evangelists, is spoilt by a very weak
angel, otherwise the scheme of white applique on
blue is agreeable enough.
Lace is generously represented and, so far as the
limits of the material permit, shows the prevailing
influence in the air ; but in lace the design is best
when least obvious, and for a substance intended
for use in soft folds, the pattern as it appears, flat
and rigid in a drawing, is of far less importance
than usual. Space forbids even a list of the prize-
winners in this section, where Alice Jacob (Dublin)
won a gold medal, and silver medals fell to a large
number, including Edith James (Bradford) for a
fan, Joseph Else (Nottingham), and many others.
In modelled ornament, an ambitious monument
by Michael J. Shortall (Dublin) inspires respect
rather than admiration. A very clever panel in
bas-relief by Ernest W. Light (South Kensington),
a still more novel and entirely delightful frieze for
a nursery by the same hands, show that the home
schools include at least one student who has
humour and imagination as well as scholarship.
DESIGN FOR THE DECORATION OF AN ENTRANCE HALL
28o
BY G. M. ELLGOOD (Holloway)