DOI article:
Baldry, Alfred Lys: Some etchings by Sir Charles Holroyd
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Etchings by Sir Charles Holroyd
“ ALCANTARA BRIDGE, TOLEDO
about the capacity of an artist who combines such
a right sense of aesthetic responsibility with so
much correctness of technical accomplishment,
and who satisfiesiso well all the demands that can
be made upon him.
Here it is that the advantage of his thorough
training becomes especially apparent. Only by
long and well-directed practice could he have
arrived at the precision of draughtsmanship which
makes exceptionally attractive etchings like the
Langstrath with its sensi-
tive definition of complex
forms, and which gives a
kind of classic quality to his
characteristic and scholarly
study of a Satyrs Head;
and no man who had not
mastered his medium could
have combined strength
and refinement as surely
as he has in the gold point
drawing which is repro-
duced here. It is in things
of this order that he proves
how sedulously he has
striven to equip himself for
his profession; command-
ing technical skill comes only to the patient student
whose industry is unflagging and whose intention
to avoid the cramping effect of mechanical in-
efficiency has been kept always clearly in view.
Without this facility of expression the dignified
restraint which marks his work would have been
scarcely possible. Dignity and reticence are virtues
which grow out of an intimate understanding of
the means by which the artist is able to visualise
what is in his mind, and upon them depends all
BY SIR CHARLES HOLROYD
((
LANGSTRATH
BY SIR CHARLES HOLROYD
“ ALCANTARA BRIDGE, TOLEDO
about the capacity of an artist who combines such
a right sense of aesthetic responsibility with so
much correctness of technical accomplishment,
and who satisfiesiso well all the demands that can
be made upon him.
Here it is that the advantage of his thorough
training becomes especially apparent. Only by
long and well-directed practice could he have
arrived at the precision of draughtsmanship which
makes exceptionally attractive etchings like the
Langstrath with its sensi-
tive definition of complex
forms, and which gives a
kind of classic quality to his
characteristic and scholarly
study of a Satyrs Head;
and no man who had not
mastered his medium could
have combined strength
and refinement as surely
as he has in the gold point
drawing which is repro-
duced here. It is in things
of this order that he proves
how sedulously he has
striven to equip himself for
his profession; command-
ing technical skill comes only to the patient student
whose industry is unflagging and whose intention
to avoid the cramping effect of mechanical in-
efficiency has been kept always clearly in view.
Without this facility of expression the dignified
restraint which marks his work would have been
scarcely possible. Dignity and reticence are virtues
which grow out of an intimate understanding of
the means by which the artist is able to visualise
what is in his mind, and upon them depends all
BY SIR CHARLES HOLROYD
((
LANGSTRATH
BY SIR CHARLES HOLROYD