DOI issue:
No. 89 (Aug. 1900)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19785#0220
Studio- Talk
wide popularity, and a degree of technical power Perseus and Andromeda, can easily be lowered,
that should make possible to him really great and we may leave the atmosphere of London to
achievement. tone down the rather obtrusively red walls of
-- several galleries. As a whole, then, the arrange-
The new National Gallery at Hertford House is ment of the Wallace collection leaves but little to
best described as an astonishingly varied and won- be desired. The general public has now to prove
derful collection of pictures, furniture, bronzes, that it knows how to value an inestimable bequest,
objets d'art, and European arms and armour. The and we earnestly hope that the furniture and the
task of displaying to good advantage these miscel- objets d'art will not be vulgarised by the persistent
laneous treasures required rare gifts of tact and imitators among craftsmen and designers,
patience, as well as a thorough sympathy with art -
in many historic manifestations. Mistakes of judg- The following letter has been received from Mr.
ment have certainly been made, but they are few C. R. Ashbee :—" I notice, in the first article on
in number and not at all serious. Those pictures, ' Suggestions for the Improvement of Sporting
for instance, which are hung too high, like Titian's Cups and Trophies,' that you give one of the little
cups on page 56 as being
designed by me. The
cup was designed by
Mr. Ernest Codman, the
figures modelled by Mr.
W. Hardiman and the cup
fitted by Mr. J. Bailey.
As the cup in question
was a gift to me from
them, together with other
pupils of mine, I am par-
ticularly anxious that the
credit should be placed
where it is due. It is
often difficult in work
such as is done at Essex
House to determine who
is and who is not the
designer, and where the
executant is left free to
apply his own fancy the
original inspiration is
necessarily, and I think
rightly, modified."
Miss Ethel Kate
Burgess, whose spirited
studies inwater-colours are
reproduced on pages 191,
192 and 195, is a student
of the Lambeth School
of Art. In 1897 she won
a valuable scholarship
offered by the London
County Council, and last
year, in November, she
won at the Gilbert Sketch-
' MY CROWN AND SCEPTRE" BY T. C GOTCH inS Club the firSt P"Ze fOT
(Purchased by the New South Wales National Gallery) figure composition. It will
190
wide popularity, and a degree of technical power Perseus and Andromeda, can easily be lowered,
that should make possible to him really great and we may leave the atmosphere of London to
achievement. tone down the rather obtrusively red walls of
-- several galleries. As a whole, then, the arrange-
The new National Gallery at Hertford House is ment of the Wallace collection leaves but little to
best described as an astonishingly varied and won- be desired. The general public has now to prove
derful collection of pictures, furniture, bronzes, that it knows how to value an inestimable bequest,
objets d'art, and European arms and armour. The and we earnestly hope that the furniture and the
task of displaying to good advantage these miscel- objets d'art will not be vulgarised by the persistent
laneous treasures required rare gifts of tact and imitators among craftsmen and designers,
patience, as well as a thorough sympathy with art -
in many historic manifestations. Mistakes of judg- The following letter has been received from Mr.
ment have certainly been made, but they are few C. R. Ashbee :—" I notice, in the first article on
in number and not at all serious. Those pictures, ' Suggestions for the Improvement of Sporting
for instance, which are hung too high, like Titian's Cups and Trophies,' that you give one of the little
cups on page 56 as being
designed by me. The
cup was designed by
Mr. Ernest Codman, the
figures modelled by Mr.
W. Hardiman and the cup
fitted by Mr. J. Bailey.
As the cup in question
was a gift to me from
them, together with other
pupils of mine, I am par-
ticularly anxious that the
credit should be placed
where it is due. It is
often difficult in work
such as is done at Essex
House to determine who
is and who is not the
designer, and where the
executant is left free to
apply his own fancy the
original inspiration is
necessarily, and I think
rightly, modified."
Miss Ethel Kate
Burgess, whose spirited
studies inwater-colours are
reproduced on pages 191,
192 and 195, is a student
of the Lambeth School
of Art. In 1897 she won
a valuable scholarship
offered by the London
County Council, and last
year, in November, she
won at the Gilbert Sketch-
' MY CROWN AND SCEPTRE" BY T. C GOTCH inS Club the firSt P"Ze fOT
(Purchased by the New South Wales National Gallery) figure composition. It will
190