DOI Heft:
No. 82 (January, 1900)
DOI Artikel:British decorative art in 1899, and the Arts And Crafts Exhibition, [4]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19783#0298
Arts and Crafts
Another monument, now
in course of execution, is
the statue of Robert Blake
to be set up at his birth-
place, the town of Bridg-
water, Somerset. The face
is modelled from the only
known portrait which has
any claim to authenticity.
The figure is to be cast in
bronze and to stand on a
granite pedestal, decorated
on three sides with bronze
reliefs of scenes in the life
of Blake. The fourth panel
is to contain his name and
the inscription, together
with a representation of
the medal struck by order
of the Commonwealth.
Two examples only are
PLASTER RELIEF PANEL "THE MORNING OF LIFE" BY MISS E. M. ROPE , , ,
known to the sculptor.
One is the property of the
by giving his figures a block support to the Queen, the other, from which Mr. Pomeroy made
feet. A similar pair over the entrance and a panel his studies, is preserved at Wadham College,
in the wall space above it complete Mr. Pomeroy's Oxford. Last, but not by any means least in
scheme for the decoration of the building. In the importance, is the statue of Mr. Gladstone,
way of detached sculpture may be noted the Burns which is now in course of execution in white
monument erected at Paisley. It stands in a public Screvezza marble. It represents the deceased
park upon a pedestal of original form, decorated statesman as he was in his full vigour, at the period
with a bas-relief panel of " Tarn o' Shanter." of the Home Rule for Ireland Bill. It is a splendid
PLASTER RELIEF PANEL
270
BY MISS E. M. ROPE.
Another monument, now
in course of execution, is
the statue of Robert Blake
to be set up at his birth-
place, the town of Bridg-
water, Somerset. The face
is modelled from the only
known portrait which has
any claim to authenticity.
The figure is to be cast in
bronze and to stand on a
granite pedestal, decorated
on three sides with bronze
reliefs of scenes in the life
of Blake. The fourth panel
is to contain his name and
the inscription, together
with a representation of
the medal struck by order
of the Commonwealth.
Two examples only are
PLASTER RELIEF PANEL "THE MORNING OF LIFE" BY MISS E. M. ROPE , , ,
known to the sculptor.
One is the property of the
by giving his figures a block support to the Queen, the other, from which Mr. Pomeroy made
feet. A similar pair over the entrance and a panel his studies, is preserved at Wadham College,
in the wall space above it complete Mr. Pomeroy's Oxford. Last, but not by any means least in
scheme for the decoration of the building. In the importance, is the statue of Mr. Gladstone,
way of detached sculpture may be noted the Burns which is now in course of execution in white
monument erected at Paisley. It stands in a public Screvezza marble. It represents the deceased
park upon a pedestal of original form, decorated statesman as he was in his full vigour, at the period
with a bas-relief panel of " Tarn o' Shanter." of the Home Rule for Ireland Bill. It is a splendid
PLASTER RELIEF PANEL
270
BY MISS E. M. ROPE.