DOI issue:
No. 176 (November, 1907)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20776#0173
Studio- Talk
the cupola immediately overhead; a convenient Fair." Landscape, architecture, and figure enter
circular gallery underneath; a city with a history largely into the composition, and the utmost care
rich in incident and a record for progress at which was taken to ensure accuracy in conception and
the world marvels. This was the position as it detail. J. T.
presented itself to the artists, when they deter- -
mined to take a series of outstanding incidents in Readers of The Studio are already familiar with
the city's history, and make each panel interesting the work of Miss Annie French. The drawing
with an event as remote as a fifth century miracle, reproduced on the opposite page was one of many
by which Saint Ninian restored lost health and attractive features in a recent exhibition at the
sight to King Totael (an act that led to the conse- Baillie Gallery in London,
cration of the ground on which the cathedral now
stands, and incidentally to the genesis of Glasgow); "■ "V IRMINGHAM.—We give here an illus-
or as modern as an eighteenth century episode in I J tration of an exhibition pavilion, design-
the stirring and romantic period of '45. 1 ed by Mr. James A. Swan for Messrs.
- * Cadbury Bros. The pavilion is con-
The work demanded research, for the age is structed chiefly of oak and American white wood,
critical; patient concentration, occupying as it did the roof being covered with oak shingles. The
the greater part of a year, and decorative ability of scheme of colour is yellow, green and red bands
a high order, all which it received at the hands of on a white ground. The furniture was specially
the collaborators. The Law-Anderson treatment designed in oak, inlaid with sycamore, stained
is well suited to the occasion; in flat low tones it green and white ; the seats are upholstered in
harmonises with the environment, and brings into pig-skin. The sign is fitted with electric lamps
prominent relief the bright spots like a fifteenth for displaying a transparent advertisement inserted
century citizen's doublet, or a Jacobite partisan's therein. The length of the pavilion is about
tunic. To deal with subjects embracing a period 20 feet,
of eleven centuries, to
carry out the work away
from the position to be
finally occupied, to fix
the large canvases on the
coved, tapering panels,
and find accurate propor-
tion, pleasing harmony,
and complete unity of
effect, is surely a tribute
to the care and skill with
which the work has been
carried out.
In addition to the one
reproduced on p. 145, the
subjects illustrated are
"The Healing of King
Totael," "The Birth of
Kentigern," " Kentigern
Preaching to King Red-
rath," " Building Glasgow
Cathedral," "A Fair at
Glasgow," "Proclama-
tion of Papal Bull, Con-
stituting Glasgow Uni-
versity," " Presentation
of Leets to the Arch-
bishop," and "A Glasgow EXHIBITION PAVILION FOR MESSRS. CADBURY BROS. J. A. SWAN, ARCHITECT
147
the cupola immediately overhead; a convenient Fair." Landscape, architecture, and figure enter
circular gallery underneath; a city with a history largely into the composition, and the utmost care
rich in incident and a record for progress at which was taken to ensure accuracy in conception and
the world marvels. This was the position as it detail. J. T.
presented itself to the artists, when they deter- -
mined to take a series of outstanding incidents in Readers of The Studio are already familiar with
the city's history, and make each panel interesting the work of Miss Annie French. The drawing
with an event as remote as a fifth century miracle, reproduced on the opposite page was one of many
by which Saint Ninian restored lost health and attractive features in a recent exhibition at the
sight to King Totael (an act that led to the conse- Baillie Gallery in London,
cration of the ground on which the cathedral now
stands, and incidentally to the genesis of Glasgow); "■ "V IRMINGHAM.—We give here an illus-
or as modern as an eighteenth century episode in I J tration of an exhibition pavilion, design-
the stirring and romantic period of '45. 1 ed by Mr. James A. Swan for Messrs.
- * Cadbury Bros. The pavilion is con-
The work demanded research, for the age is structed chiefly of oak and American white wood,
critical; patient concentration, occupying as it did the roof being covered with oak shingles. The
the greater part of a year, and decorative ability of scheme of colour is yellow, green and red bands
a high order, all which it received at the hands of on a white ground. The furniture was specially
the collaborators. The Law-Anderson treatment designed in oak, inlaid with sycamore, stained
is well suited to the occasion; in flat low tones it green and white ; the seats are upholstered in
harmonises with the environment, and brings into pig-skin. The sign is fitted with electric lamps
prominent relief the bright spots like a fifteenth for displaying a transparent advertisement inserted
century citizen's doublet, or a Jacobite partisan's therein. The length of the pavilion is about
tunic. To deal with subjects embracing a period 20 feet,
of eleven centuries, to
carry out the work away
from the position to be
finally occupied, to fix
the large canvases on the
coved, tapering panels,
and find accurate propor-
tion, pleasing harmony,
and complete unity of
effect, is surely a tribute
to the care and skill with
which the work has been
carried out.
In addition to the one
reproduced on p. 145, the
subjects illustrated are
"The Healing of King
Totael," "The Birth of
Kentigern," " Kentigern
Preaching to King Red-
rath," " Building Glasgow
Cathedral," "A Fair at
Glasgow," "Proclama-
tion of Papal Bull, Con-
stituting Glasgow Uni-
versity," " Presentation
of Leets to the Arch-
bishop," and "A Glasgow EXHIBITION PAVILION FOR MESSRS. CADBURY BROS. J. A. SWAN, ARCHITECT
147