Studio- Talk
BY
£
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LABOURERS' COTTAGES (HON. MENTION : COM!'. A LXIl) BY '' PIERROT'
or the house to become full of steam on washing- Engravers of his type are not now to be found ;
day. The pantry, by which one may imagine he their place has been taken by the etchers and
means larder, is, in each case, some distance from workers in mezzotint, who are certainly producing
the kitchen. Angelina's plan (page 6i) is simple things which are in their particular way quite as
and well-contrived, and by a little ingenuity it worthy of attention as the engravings in line or
might have been arranged that the doors of the stipple which were in fashion generations ago. As
back bedrooms of the left-hand house were more line engraving is now a dead art the new Associate-
than about two feet wide. The elevation is quiet Engravers will have to be drawn from the ranks of
and cottage-like. Rosamund (page 6i) has obtained the etchers and mezzotinters, and it will be interest-
a pleasant effect by imagining a fall of eighteen ing to see whom out of the many fine craftsmen
inches or so in the level of the ground. The plan who are available the Academy chooses. If it
is simple, and the house would be inexpensive, follows precedent, it will presumably prefer workers
though we hardly think it could be carried out at in mezzotint, for they are now, like the line
so low a price as ^\d. a foot. engravers of other days, the reproducers of pictures
(To be continued.) ancj neWj arK} the translators of popular
STUDIO-TALK paintings into black and white. But if original
(From our own Correspondents) engravers are required they will have to be sought
LONDON.—The Academy is said to be among the etchers, of whom there are many who
contemplating a revival of the class of well deserve admission to Burlington House,
members known as Associate-Engravers, Indeed, the difficulty will be not so much to find
which has been allowed for some con- suitable candidates for the two Associateships
siderable time to remain without representatives. which are to be filled, as to make the right selection
In past years many of the more distinguished men from the crowd of men who are available,
who practised the art of engraving were elected to the --
Associateship and were accorded by the Academy The intention of the Academy to include in its
the recognition which was due to them on their winter exhibition a representative collection of the
merits. One of these men, Mr. Stacpoole, is indeed works of G. F. Watts is entirely to be commended,
still living, but he has been for a long time on the If, as presumably will be the case, it takes care to
retired list and no longer follows his profession. secure a really adequate display of his perform-
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BY
£
■3©"Wf*b°.- 'a'-V
LABOURERS' COTTAGES (HON. MENTION : COM!'. A LXIl) BY '' PIERROT'
or the house to become full of steam on washing- Engravers of his type are not now to be found ;
day. The pantry, by which one may imagine he their place has been taken by the etchers and
means larder, is, in each case, some distance from workers in mezzotint, who are certainly producing
the kitchen. Angelina's plan (page 6i) is simple things which are in their particular way quite as
and well-contrived, and by a little ingenuity it worthy of attention as the engravings in line or
might have been arranged that the doors of the stipple which were in fashion generations ago. As
back bedrooms of the left-hand house were more line engraving is now a dead art the new Associate-
than about two feet wide. The elevation is quiet Engravers will have to be drawn from the ranks of
and cottage-like. Rosamund (page 6i) has obtained the etchers and mezzotinters, and it will be interest-
a pleasant effect by imagining a fall of eighteen ing to see whom out of the many fine craftsmen
inches or so in the level of the ground. The plan who are available the Academy chooses. If it
is simple, and the house would be inexpensive, follows precedent, it will presumably prefer workers
though we hardly think it could be carried out at in mezzotint, for they are now, like the line
so low a price as ^\d. a foot. engravers of other days, the reproducers of pictures
(To be continued.) ancj neWj arK} the translators of popular
STUDIO-TALK paintings into black and white. But if original
(From our own Correspondents) engravers are required they will have to be sought
LONDON.—The Academy is said to be among the etchers, of whom there are many who
contemplating a revival of the class of well deserve admission to Burlington House,
members known as Associate-Engravers, Indeed, the difficulty will be not so much to find
which has been allowed for some con- suitable candidates for the two Associateships
siderable time to remain without representatives. which are to be filled, as to make the right selection
In past years many of the more distinguished men from the crowd of men who are available,
who practised the art of engraving were elected to the --
Associateship and were accorded by the Academy The intention of the Academy to include in its
the recognition which was due to them on their winter exhibition a representative collection of the
merits. One of these men, Mr. Stacpoole, is indeed works of G. F. Watts is entirely to be commended,
still living, but he has been for a long time on the If, as presumably will be the case, it takes care to
retired list and no longer follows his profession. secure a really adequate display of his perform-
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