Studio: international art (46.1909)

Reviews and Notices

the general feeling of experts will be one of grati-
tude to those who have devoted so much time and
labour to the elucidation of the problems con-
nected with the Lombard school. Of considerable
importance, for instance, is the discovery from
documental evidence that the artist under review
lived very much longer than is generally supposed,
passing away at the age of 89, not 64, so that many
paintings now tentatively attributed to other hands
may possibly be by him.

Old Interiors in Holland. By K. Sluyterman.
(The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff.) —The old

buildings of Amsterdam, Haarlem, Leyden, Ame-
rongen, Leersum, Middelburg, Affiere, Zierikzee,
Delft, The Hague, Maastricht, Nijmegen, Zwolle,
Enkhuizen, Edam, Leeuwarden, Groningen and
sundry other places in the Netherlands, have
furnished the illustrations for this work—a canvas
portfolio containing 100 fine collotype reproduc-
tions of photographs, displaying a choice selection
of the rare treasures which Holland possesses in
the way of old furniture and interior appointments.
A large number of the interiors presented belong to
public or quasi-public buildings, and they have been
selected because they retain to a large extent the
features which they had originally, The letterpress
is confined to a description of the
plates taken seriatim, and in this is
given information concerning the
building and also of the various
component parts of the interior
illustrated.

From the offices of “ Academy
Architecture,” 58 Theobalds Road,

London, we have received a volume
entitled Sculptures (f>s. net), edited
by Alex. Koch, Architect, in
which excellent reproductions are
given of all the sculptures pub-
lished in Vols. 25 to 34 of that
publication, covering the years 1904
to 1908. The works illustrated
have been selected from the chief
exhibitions in London, Paris, and
elsewhere.

Messrs. Frost and Reed, of
Bristol and London, are publishing,
in strictly limited editions, two large
photogravure prints after pictures
by Mr. C. Napier Hemy, A.R.A.,

Fair Wind — Fine Weather and
The Last Reef Down, both of
which were exhibited in last year’s
Royal Academy. The reproduction

of these two fine examples of marine painting is
all that could be desired.

It is pretty generally agreed that the pictures
usually found in schools leave much to be desired
from an artistic point of view. No objection of
this kind can be urged against such prints as that
reproduced on this page, which is from a litho-
graph designed by Mr. Heywood Sumner, printed
in outline and coloured by hand. It is one of the
“ Fitzroy ” series published by Messrs. G. Bell &
Sons to meet the need for a better quality of school
picture than the crude and uninteresting produc-
tions one so often sees displayed in class-rooms.
The original print measures 26 by 24 inches, and
is sold at y. 6d. net. _

Our Vienna Correspondent desires us to state
that the etching by Ferdinand Schmutzer called
The News oj the Day, which was reproduced in
our December number (page 195), is one of which
the copyright belongs to the Gesellschaft fur Verviel-
faltigende Kunst, Vienna. This society published
last year a large etching by the same artist, called
Die Klostersuppe, a proof of which was included
in the exhibition of Prof. Schmutzer’s etchings
recently held at the Baillie Gallery.

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