Studio: international art (29.1903)

Mr. G. P. Bankarfs Leadwork

work by Mr. Bankart, but the art will seem better
worth reviving when the extent to which lead
was used in the past is realised, and when we have
said once more that among the artistic crafts there
is none of higher rank than the lead-worker's.

Mr. F. W. Troup, instructor in the Central School
of Arts and Crafts, London, contributed a paper to
the Journal of the Architectural Institute which
should be read by all who desire to be better
acquainted with the technical side of the matter.
There is a scarcely perceptible point at which every
craft that deserves the name passes into the region
of art, but before beginning to talk of its achieve-
ments in that domain, it would be as well to know
what the potentialities of the lead-worker's materials

leadwork at dean collett's
school for girls, hammer-
smith

by G. p. bankart

portion oe lead PARAPETTiNG by g. p. bankart to hammer sheets of lead over

the wood statue until they fitted
the shape." In all such cases as

are. While much, very much, may be learned from this the leadwork is subsidiary, but there are

Mr. Troup's paper, and nothing he has to say can unnumbered examples of sculpture in lead direct.

well be spared at the moment, Mr. Lethaby's book Where casting has been resorted to, it no more

is more for the public at large, and his pages glow deprives the work of its originality than it does in

with his own delight in the subject matter. the parallel case of bronzes originating in the clay

Nearly all roofs, as we

know, were lead-covered of

old, but roofs must be

"finished." A very familiar

finish was a figure of a

Patron Saint, beaten out

in lead, and Mr. Troup

mentions a payment made

in 1514 to "John Pothyn,

sculptor (of Rouen), for

having carved a prophet

in walnut-wood to serve

as a mould and model

for the work in hand."

....."all, then, the

sculptor had to do was lead panel modelled in low relief by g. p. bankart

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