Studio: international art (18.1900)

Arts and Crafts

decoration, which is
necessarily on a propor-
tionately larger scale, the
spandrils over the main
. entrance of the Sheffield
Town Hall, representing
on either hand " Elec-
tricity " and " Steam,"
and the frieze for the
principal fagade are fair
examples. The frieze is
72 ft. long by about 3 ft.
7 in. high. It is carried
out in shallow relief only
on account of the smoki-
ness of the atmosphere
to which it is exposed.
The subject is a repre-
sentation of the prevailing
industries of the locality,
from the rougher trades
of the hammerman, the
grinder and the miner, to
the more skilled crafts of
the metal-worker, the
cutler, the electroplater
and the ivory-turner, and
finally export. The
sculpture was executed
in Yorkshire stone upon
the spot, after the de-
signer's models and
under his immediate
supervision. In another
undertaking, viz., the
sculpture for the or-
namentation of the
Liverpool Museum, the
architect, Mr. Mountford,
has allowed Mr. Pomeroy
an absolutely free hand
in carrying out the work,
which consists of the
tympana, two in number,
near the summit of the
building, and two pairs
of figures resting on the

ground beneath. Another recent work of Mr. pedimental projections above two windows. This
Pomeroy's is a bronze mural tablet, to be erected particular use of the human form in architecture
in the nave of Lincoln Minster in memory of those is a fashion set by Michae1 Angelo in the Medici
members of the Lincolnshire Regiment who fell in monument at Florence, in which, indeed, the
the engagement at Atbara. figures are so placed as to appear to be slipping

Thus much of ornamental work executed for off, and give one a painful sense of insecurity,
internal purposes. Of design applied to external Mr. Pomeroy wisely has obviated this defect
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