Studio: international art (49.1910)

The Society of Graver-Printers in Colour

Roussel. The artists present, besides Mr. Roussel,
were Mrs. E. C. Austen Brown, Messrs. E. L.
Laurenson, J. D. Batten, W. Douglas Almond, R.I.,
Sydney Lee, A.R.E., Raphael Roussel and myself.
These artists were unanimous in declaring that in
the constitution of the society proposed to be
formed the following conditions should be regarded
as fundamental:—-

(a) That all works should be the invention of
the artist, to the exclusion of all copies or repro-
ductions of any kind ;

(b) That all prints obtained from original en-
gravings should be the work of the artist, and
should be pritited by himself;

(c) That all works in the production of which
photography has been employed should be ex-
cluded ;

(id) That all proofs should be guaranteed as
printed in colour by the artist, and not coloured or
completed by hand.

At the meeting just mentioned it was unani-
mously resolved that the society should be formed;
and it was arranged that the exhibitions of the
society should, for a period agreed upon, be held

at the galleries of Messrs. M'anzi, Joyant & Co.
(successors to Goupil & Co.), of 25, Bedford
Street, Strand. Its first exhibition will be opened
at these galleries on the 20th of this month and
continue open for about a month, after which it
will be transferred to Paris.

In the interval that has elapsed since the forma-
tion of the society half-a-dozen new members have
joined. These are Mrs. Lee Hankey, Mr. F.
Morley Fletcher, Principal of the Edinburgh
College of Art, Mr. Frederick Marriott, Head-
master of the Goldsmiths’ College School of Art
at New Cross, Mr. Alfred Hartley, R.E., Mr. W.
Giles and Mr. Allen W. Seaby, all of whom are
showing at the first exhibition along with the
President and other original members.

The society puts forward as the raison d'etre of
its existence the great desirability of showing the
public and lovers of art the colour print as an
expression of art in contradistinction to the
coloured etching or mezzotint coloured d la poupee
—the showing of colour prints and not coloured
prints. Therein lies a great difference. The colour
print is obtained by the superimposing of several

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