DOI issue:
No. 155 (February, 1906)
DOI article:The arts and crafts exhibition at the Grafton Gallery, [1]
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20714#0072
Arts and Crafts Exhibition. First Notice
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EARTHENWARE
with the exhibits in a more detailed manner and in
their departments, we will mention a few works
which struck us in a first rapid survey of the gal-
leries, and amongst them will be found some of the
most interesting of the contributions with which we
shall deal more closely later.
In the first room our attention was drawn to
the fine workmanship and design of a library
cabinet by Mr. Sidney H. Barnsley, a sideboard in
English oak by Mr. Ernest W. Gimson, work by Mr.
Edward Spencer and the Artificers' Guild, and a set
of animal panels in copper by Mr. Harold Stabler.
The walls of the second room are covered with large
cartoons for stained glass and mural decorations,
tapestries and linen work, delicate pencil studies by
Mr. Henry Holiday, illuminations by Edmund T.
Reuter, books and original illustrations in colour by
Mr. Walter Crane. The cartoons for stained glass in-
clude designs by Messrs. Hey wood Sumner, Aiming
Bell, Christopher Whall, Miss Mary J. Newill, and the
designs of Mr. J. W. Brown, sent by Messrs. Powell &
52 , >
Sons, executed for Belfast Cathedral. We shall
have occasion to refer to the window designs
again. The very remarkable and forcible cartoons
for mural decoration by Mrs. Sergeant-Florence
call for particular notice. The drawing in them
certainly is masterly, and some of that grip of
character which used to give such a characteristic
emphasis to the work of Madox Brown is apparent
here. This quality is always rare, and such confi-
dent and virile execution as denotes these two
large drawings is not often to be met with. A large
spandril in plaster exhibited by Mr. Conrad Dress-
ier, and designs in coloured pottery by the same
sculptor, increase the importance of the exhibits in
this room. The bookbindings by Mr. Douglas
Cockerell and Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, the writings
of Mr. Graily Hewitt, the illuminations of Miss
Kingsford and Mr. Allen Vigers, all of which are
amongst the most notable things in the exhibition,
are to be found in this room, and to them we shall
return. Here also is a particularly fine study in
tempera by Mr. J. D. Batten. It represents St.
Christopher and the infant Christ. It is drawn in
monochrome, except for the infant figure, which has
RELIEF: "MAGNIFICAT" BY EDITH DOWNING
ENAMELLED BY CONRAD DRESSLKR
EARTHENWARE
with the exhibits in a more detailed manner and in
their departments, we will mention a few works
which struck us in a first rapid survey of the gal-
leries, and amongst them will be found some of the
most interesting of the contributions with which we
shall deal more closely later.
In the first room our attention was drawn to
the fine workmanship and design of a library
cabinet by Mr. Sidney H. Barnsley, a sideboard in
English oak by Mr. Ernest W. Gimson, work by Mr.
Edward Spencer and the Artificers' Guild, and a set
of animal panels in copper by Mr. Harold Stabler.
The walls of the second room are covered with large
cartoons for stained glass and mural decorations,
tapestries and linen work, delicate pencil studies by
Mr. Henry Holiday, illuminations by Edmund T.
Reuter, books and original illustrations in colour by
Mr. Walter Crane. The cartoons for stained glass in-
clude designs by Messrs. Hey wood Sumner, Aiming
Bell, Christopher Whall, Miss Mary J. Newill, and the
designs of Mr. J. W. Brown, sent by Messrs. Powell &
52 , >
Sons, executed for Belfast Cathedral. We shall
have occasion to refer to the window designs
again. The very remarkable and forcible cartoons
for mural decoration by Mrs. Sergeant-Florence
call for particular notice. The drawing in them
certainly is masterly, and some of that grip of
character which used to give such a characteristic
emphasis to the work of Madox Brown is apparent
here. This quality is always rare, and such confi-
dent and virile execution as denotes these two
large drawings is not often to be met with. A large
spandril in plaster exhibited by Mr. Conrad Dress-
ier, and designs in coloured pottery by the same
sculptor, increase the importance of the exhibits in
this room. The bookbindings by Mr. Douglas
Cockerell and Mr. Cobden-Sanderson, the writings
of Mr. Graily Hewitt, the illuminations of Miss
Kingsford and Mr. Allen Vigers, all of which are
amongst the most notable things in the exhibition,
are to be found in this room, and to them we shall
return. Here also is a particularly fine study in
tempera by Mr. J. D. Batten. It represents St.
Christopher and the infant Christ. It is drawn in
monochrome, except for the infant figure, which has
RELIEF: "MAGNIFICAT" BY EDITH DOWNING