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Studio: international art — 19.1900

DOI Heft:
No. 86 (May, 1900)
DOI Artikel:
Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19784#0281

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Studio- Talk

Unknown the dead body of a man who has
lived to extreme old age. Like everything that
Mr. Fisher does, this book-plate is full of thought.

The charming book-plates of Mr. Harold Nelson
(pages 269 and 270) are touched with a lighter
spirit. In them there is nothing mystical, nothing
" other-worldly." They are bright and spirited,
while in beauty of drawing it would be hard to
find their equals among modern book - plates
Those of the mediaeval knights in armour have
a strong rhythm of line admirably in keeping with
the subject.

FALMOUTH. — Academically considered,
I suppose no town in the United King-
dom is so favoured as Falmouth; out
of the three or four artists who have
chosen this most delightful of western seaports as
their home, two have now the privilege of associat-
ing with the elder brethren of Burlington House,
Mr. H. S. Tuke being the last painter who has
been drawn into this serene atmosphere, where the

juries cease from troubling, and-. Well, Mr.

Tuke richly deserves whatsoever of peace with
honour there is in his selection, and I do not

BOOK-PLATE by harold nelson

and at last not at all; the
spirit evaporates, and the
shellac is left."

Illustrations are given
(p. 267) of two designs for
stencilling by Miss Ray-
ment. Miss Rayment has
a good eye for colour, and
her designs are nearly always
fortunate in treatment.

Mr. Fisher in his book-
plate (p. 271) takes for
his subject the Angel Az-
rafel, whose heart's strings ^\ ?]Sfit3^§sk^^B ^Jf^^^^^mtHc' E&SS/ jl

are a lute, and whose music ^, L.&r**—"Tr-*« /rrwk ri" L ' yt^K;/' //

is the sweetest of all God's ^ NyJTVsZ_£ v lLY k=e-/ //

creatures. Behind, at the \/_WYNNES"————//

edge of the wood, there >^ R4F?TT^1\T /

are figures typical of love, * * ~ >S

youth, and youthful sorrow; x<^r j qrV^/

while down the River of ^^^^ ^^-2^^

Time a boat sails slowly, ^===:i^

bearing onwards to the book-plate by harold nelson

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