Studio: international art (47.1909)

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COVER OF ILLUMINATED TROPHY AND ROLL OF HONOUR. DESIGNED AND
EXECUTED BY S. POOLE. GOLD TOOLING BY MISS A. SHEPHERD. BOUND AT
THE CEDRIC CHIVERS BINDERY, BATH

STUDIO-TALK.

(Frorn Our Own Correspondents.)

It is in book form, bound
in purple levant; in the
outer cover is inlaid a
“vellucent” (colour under
transparent vellum) panel,
bearing the arms of Strat-
ford. The surrounding
gold tooling is by Miss
Alice Shepherd. The two
covers are appropriately
decorated on the inside,
the work being also
covered with transparent
vellum, tooled and inlaid
with mother-of-pearl. The
book itself is made up of
pages of vellum, on which
will be engrossed the
prize winners’ names from
year to year. The work
has been designed and
executed by Mr. Samuel
Poole, and carried out at Messrs. Chivers’ bindery
at Bath.

On this page we give
an illustration of the
covers of an illuminated
trophy and roll of honour,
presented to the Council
of the Shakespeare Fes-
tival, Stratford-on-Avon,
by Cedric Chivers, Esq.,
J.P., of Bath. The “ Roll
of Honour” is intended
to perpetuate the names
of winners in the old
English games and sports,
held at the annual festival.

THREE ENAMELS ON COPPER IN SILVER FRAME

LONDON.—At the last Election of the
Royal Academy, Mr. J. J. Shannon, who
became an A.R.A. in 1897, was elected
full Academician in place of the late Mr.
Gregory. His first impor-
tant picture at the Royal
Academy was exhibited in
1881, three years after his
arrival in England from
America, in which country
he was born, the inter-
vening period being spent
at the South Kensington
Schools.

We also reproduce a set of three enamels on
copper in a silver frame, by Ernestine Mills, which
was among the most notable efforts in this medium
in the last Academy. A drawing, Sunset, by

BY ERNESTINE MILLS