DOI Heft:
No. 239 (February 1913)
DOI Artikel:The Arts and Crafts Society's exhibition at the Grosvenor Gallery, [2]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0047
The Arts and Crafts Society s Exhibition
in lettering was shown in the examples produced
under his direction at the Doves Press. It does
not need an expert in printing to appreciate the
clear and beautiful impressions of the type used
by him in his "Shakespearian Punctuation." To
read it is a pleasure to the eyes. Specimens of the
skilful handiwork of Morris included in the first
exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society in 1888
are said to have originated the modern revival in
England of the arts of writing and illumination.
The practice of these arts has developed steadily
in the intervening years, and the recent exhibition
at the Grosvenor Gallery contained some admirable
examples of them in Mr. Graily Hewitt's curious
" Copy of the Will of Charles Lounsberry "; Mr.
Henry J. Manwaring's writing on vellum "Of
Studies " ; Mr. Edward Johnston's " Study in Greek
Uncials "; the decorated page of lettering with a
border of green leaves and white blossoms by Mr.
A. Gwynne-Jones ; and the dainty illumination of
Dante Rossetti's " Ave " by Miss Jessie Bayes. A
good piece of lettering in the shape of a cast of
part of the inscription on a bronze memorial was
contributed by Miss Jean Milne.
One of the few pieces of coloured plaster at the
Arts and Crafts exhibition was the "Panel for
Altarpiece in Children's Chapel" shown in the
Large Gallery by Miss E. M. Rope. The panel
forged steel sconce, designed by Edward Pv,rellentlv adapted for the purpose for which
spencer and executed by the artificers guild WaS eXCeiieiluy <*uaF ^ i i
it was designed. The simple figure of the blue-
u„a ViVain spated bv a table with the Infant
guineas each are beyond the reach of the ordinary rob d V^n «^ > ^ ^
householder, to whom other things in Messrs. Christ in ner ar. n
Lowell's case made a more
dlrect appeal. A melon-
shaped decanter in soda-
lime glass, the shape
suggested by a large Vene-
tian bottle in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, was one of the
most notable examples of
the simpler ware produced
hy Messrs. Powell at White-
Wars.
Phe case of printed books
shown in the Long Gallery
by Mr. T. J. Cobden-
Sa-nderson recalled the
achievements of William
Morris, for Mr. Cobden-
Sanderson was the first to
arouse the interest of Morris
m Printing and the improve-
ment of type. Mr. Cobden- panel in cloisonne enamel _
Anderson's own good taste designed and executed by harold stabler
25
in lettering was shown in the examples produced
under his direction at the Doves Press. It does
not need an expert in printing to appreciate the
clear and beautiful impressions of the type used
by him in his "Shakespearian Punctuation." To
read it is a pleasure to the eyes. Specimens of the
skilful handiwork of Morris included in the first
exhibition of the Arts and Crafts Society in 1888
are said to have originated the modern revival in
England of the arts of writing and illumination.
The practice of these arts has developed steadily
in the intervening years, and the recent exhibition
at the Grosvenor Gallery contained some admirable
examples of them in Mr. Graily Hewitt's curious
" Copy of the Will of Charles Lounsberry "; Mr.
Henry J. Manwaring's writing on vellum "Of
Studies " ; Mr. Edward Johnston's " Study in Greek
Uncials "; the decorated page of lettering with a
border of green leaves and white blossoms by Mr.
A. Gwynne-Jones ; and the dainty illumination of
Dante Rossetti's " Ave " by Miss Jessie Bayes. A
good piece of lettering in the shape of a cast of
part of the inscription on a bronze memorial was
contributed by Miss Jean Milne.
One of the few pieces of coloured plaster at the
Arts and Crafts exhibition was the "Panel for
Altarpiece in Children's Chapel" shown in the
Large Gallery by Miss E. M. Rope. The panel
forged steel sconce, designed by Edward Pv,rellentlv adapted for the purpose for which
spencer and executed by the artificers guild WaS eXCeiieiluy <*uaF ^ i i
it was designed. The simple figure of the blue-
u„a ViVain spated bv a table with the Infant
guineas each are beyond the reach of the ordinary rob d V^n «^ > ^ ^
householder, to whom other things in Messrs. Christ in ner ar. n
Lowell's case made a more
dlrect appeal. A melon-
shaped decanter in soda-
lime glass, the shape
suggested by a large Vene-
tian bottle in the Fitzwilliam
Museum, was one of the
most notable examples of
the simpler ware produced
hy Messrs. Powell at White-
Wars.
Phe case of printed books
shown in the Long Gallery
by Mr. T. J. Cobden-
Sa-nderson recalled the
achievements of William
Morris, for Mr. Cobden-
Sanderson was the first to
arouse the interest of Morris
m Printing and the improve-
ment of type. Mr. Cobden- panel in cloisonne enamel _
Anderson's own good taste designed and executed by harold stabler
25