Studio: international art (52.1911)

Studio- Talk

the first held under the presidency of Mr. Frank
Short, R.A., and was among the best that the
Society has ever had. A number of plates by
Mr. Short's predecessor, Sir Francis Seymour -
Haden, who was the founder of the Society, and
the late Mr. R. W.Macbeth, R.A., were exhibited.
Plates of great interest were Coming Home, by
Mr. G. Gascoyne; An Old Clock, Prague,
by M. Francois Simon; Les Blanchisseuses,
by Mr. Herman A. Webster; Abingdon,
by Mr. D. J. Smart; Old Shoreham, by Mr.
Hubert Schroder ; The Skeleton in the Cup-
board, by Mr. Frederick Carter; The Noise-
less Music of the Night (aquatint) and Ferpecle
(mezzotint), by Mr. Percival Gaskell, and The
Church of the Three Kings, St. Emilion, by
Mr. Hedley Fitton : the two last with promising
plates from comparatively recent members, Mr.
Percy Robertson, Mr. J. H. Mackenzie and
Mr. J. A. Ness, we are including with our repro-
ductions. A highly pleasant decorative panel
was Yokohamas, by Mr. J. R. G. Exley; and two
plates in which etching was used at its best by
a purist in the art were those by Mr. Nelson
Dawson. Mr. Frank Short has never been

happier than in Winchelsea Marshes, and a
delightful mezzotint was The Common after
Thomas Collier, by Miss Mabel C. Robinson.
Mr. Martin Hardie's A Seaboard Hamlet and
Mr. William Ansell's Honfleur should be men-
tioned, and especially deserving of note is The
Choir, St. Ouen, Pont Audemer, by Ninna
Bolingbroke. Col. R. Goff's two etchings are
to be reckoned among his successes, and Sir
Charles Holroyd was well represented in Acro-
polis, and by other plates of Italy. Victoria
B.C.—Fort Street, by Mr. Ernest S. Lumsden ;
A Lonely Shore, by Mr. Edward W. Charlton ;
Le Canal Saint Martin, by M. Eugene Bejot;
Nancy and Dapple, by Miss Mary A. Sloane ;
Ringwood, Hampshire, by Mr. Reginald E.
J. Bush; and Mr. Fred Burridge's Chagford
Bridge axe other etchings to be remembered.

The Exhibition of Flower Paintings at the
Baillie Gallery was not so large this year as
on some previous occasions, but in point of
quality it would be difficult to rival it. A de-
lightful row of water-colours by Mr. Francis
E. James ; oil-paintings, seeming to grow ever

FERPLECLE " (MEZZOTINT)

BY PERCIVAL GASKELL, R.E.

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