DOI Heft:
No. 80 (November, 1899)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0138
Arts and Crafts
"cockatoo and pomegranates" wall-paper
]i{ walter crane
(Messrs. Jeffrey 6f Co., Manufacturers)
ment of purely modern subjects, it is because the
mechanical appliances of nineteenth-century civili-
sation are not the kind of things that lend them-
selves to ornamental design. It was then a bold
and ambitious feat that the artist attempted in his
modelled frieze for Sir Weetman Pearson's house at
Paddockhurst, Sussex. The subject, Locomotion
and Transport, is illustrated in its various phases
from the usages of primitive man to the motor
vehicles of the present day. The frieze, as originally
executed, is in plaster, cream-tinted; but of some
of the subjects Mr. Crane has produced replicas in
colour.
Another important task in which Mr. Crane has
been engaged at intervals during the past year or
two is the title-page design in four languages,
English, French, German and Dutch, and the
ornamental initials for a large picture Bible to be
published shortly by the Illustrated Bible Society
of Amsterdam. A large cartoon for a stained glass
window, executed by Mr. Sparrow, and erected in
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Trinity Church, Hull; some new title-
pages, &c, for the re-issue of some of
the famous toy-books, long since out of
print; and a vegetarian bill of fare may
be mentioned among others of Mr.
Crane's recent designs.
The work to which the name of Mr.
C. R. Ashbee is attached ought to be
regarded less as his individual work
than as that of the Guild of Handicraft
in its collective capacity. For between
the productions of Essex House and
those issuing from elsewhere there is
broadly this difference, that whereas
many contemporary artists cause their
designs to be carried out by artisans
working under them and implicitly
lectern designed by c. r. ashbee
executed by the guild of handicraft
"cockatoo and pomegranates" wall-paper
]i{ walter crane
(Messrs. Jeffrey 6f Co., Manufacturers)
ment of purely modern subjects, it is because the
mechanical appliances of nineteenth-century civili-
sation are not the kind of things that lend them-
selves to ornamental design. It was then a bold
and ambitious feat that the artist attempted in his
modelled frieze for Sir Weetman Pearson's house at
Paddockhurst, Sussex. The subject, Locomotion
and Transport, is illustrated in its various phases
from the usages of primitive man to the motor
vehicles of the present day. The frieze, as originally
executed, is in plaster, cream-tinted; but of some
of the subjects Mr. Crane has produced replicas in
colour.
Another important task in which Mr. Crane has
been engaged at intervals during the past year or
two is the title-page design in four languages,
English, French, German and Dutch, and the
ornamental initials for a large picture Bible to be
published shortly by the Illustrated Bible Society
of Amsterdam. A large cartoon for a stained glass
window, executed by Mr. Sparrow, and erected in
118
Trinity Church, Hull; some new title-
pages, &c, for the re-issue of some of
the famous toy-books, long since out of
print; and a vegetarian bill of fare may
be mentioned among others of Mr.
Crane's recent designs.
The work to which the name of Mr.
C. R. Ashbee is attached ought to be
regarded less as his individual work
than as that of the Guild of Handicraft
in its collective capacity. For between
the productions of Essex House and
those issuing from elsewhere there is
broadly this difference, that whereas
many contemporary artists cause their
designs to be carried out by artisans
working under them and implicitly
lectern designed by c. r. ashbee
executed by the guild of handicraft