DOI Heft:
No. 241 (April 1913)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21160#0247
Studio- Talk
Colour Society in 1879 and a full member in 1883. stitch veined with the finest gold thread; the grapes
As a pioneer in the discovery of London as a are all outlined in the same, while the stalks are
source of inspiration for the artist he is deservedly couched in fine gold cord. In the fire-screen (p.
entitled to remembrance; every aspect, every mood 227) a very delicate scheme has been employed—
of the great metropolis was familiar to him, and his chiefly greens upon green, showing how great a
interpretations of its scenery proved him to possess variety of tone can be obtained with one shade of
a faculty for seeing beauty in unexpected guises, silk by merely changing the angle of the stitches,
Mr. Charles Edward Johnson, R.I., who died at as for instance in the curving leaves, where though
Richmond in Surrey on February 12, was born only one shade has been used the impression is
nearly ten years earlier than Mr. Marshall. He, too, given that there are several different shades,
joined the R.A. Schools, afterwards migrating to The butterfly in this example is worked in an open
Edinburgh, whence he sent his first picture to the stitch to give the feeling of lightness; a closer
R.A. in 1858. He settled in London in the early stitch would have upset the balance of the design
sixties, and became a regular exhibitor at the by looking too solid.
Academy, his Gurth the Swineherd being acquired
under the Chantrey Bequest in T879. In 1882, The death of Mr. Thomas R. Way, which we
he became a member of the Royal Institute, and regret to learn took place at the end of February,
until a very short time before his death he is a serious loss to lithographic art and practice,
conducted a school for
landscape painting at
Richmond. rtjrVrrr v'r'r-^■rV-V---Mr-->^r-fV-r'-r!V ■'"TT^"-"^-^r'-^SSj?^.
The design for an em-
broidered chairback by
Mr.R.AnningBelhR.W.S.,
which we reproduce in
colour, was made for Mme.
Mallet, a French lady who
is an expert needleworker,
and the figure, the La
France Roses, the fleur-de-
lys, the hour-glass (held so
that the sand cannot run
down), and the scythe are
intended to suggest the
idea of perpetual summer
in her native country—a
tinted ground being given
to the fleur-de-lys instead
of the true heraldic white
one to identify it with
France alone. With this
design we reproduce in
black and white two ex-
amples of embroidery
executed by Mrs. Rey-
nolds-Stephens, another
expert needlewoman, from
designs by Mr. Voysey.
The vine piece is quite
small, being rather less..........................
than half the size of this flB^gflBW6jHg|BBBBBBBHBB>iHBHHBBSKHBmHrarajnBmM
page. The leaves are T.„ „„
d . embroidered cover. designed by c f. a. voysey, worked by
worked in button-hole reynolds-stephens
224
Colour Society in 1879 and a full member in 1883. stitch veined with the finest gold thread; the grapes
As a pioneer in the discovery of London as a are all outlined in the same, while the stalks are
source of inspiration for the artist he is deservedly couched in fine gold cord. In the fire-screen (p.
entitled to remembrance; every aspect, every mood 227) a very delicate scheme has been employed—
of the great metropolis was familiar to him, and his chiefly greens upon green, showing how great a
interpretations of its scenery proved him to possess variety of tone can be obtained with one shade of
a faculty for seeing beauty in unexpected guises, silk by merely changing the angle of the stitches,
Mr. Charles Edward Johnson, R.I., who died at as for instance in the curving leaves, where though
Richmond in Surrey on February 12, was born only one shade has been used the impression is
nearly ten years earlier than Mr. Marshall. He, too, given that there are several different shades,
joined the R.A. Schools, afterwards migrating to The butterfly in this example is worked in an open
Edinburgh, whence he sent his first picture to the stitch to give the feeling of lightness; a closer
R.A. in 1858. He settled in London in the early stitch would have upset the balance of the design
sixties, and became a regular exhibitor at the by looking too solid.
Academy, his Gurth the Swineherd being acquired
under the Chantrey Bequest in T879. In 1882, The death of Mr. Thomas R. Way, which we
he became a member of the Royal Institute, and regret to learn took place at the end of February,
until a very short time before his death he is a serious loss to lithographic art and practice,
conducted a school for
landscape painting at
Richmond. rtjrVrrr v'r'r-^■rV-V---Mr-->^r-fV-r'-r!V ■'"TT^"-"^-^r'-^SSj?^.
The design for an em-
broidered chairback by
Mr.R.AnningBelhR.W.S.,
which we reproduce in
colour, was made for Mme.
Mallet, a French lady who
is an expert needleworker,
and the figure, the La
France Roses, the fleur-de-
lys, the hour-glass (held so
that the sand cannot run
down), and the scythe are
intended to suggest the
idea of perpetual summer
in her native country—a
tinted ground being given
to the fleur-de-lys instead
of the true heraldic white
one to identify it with
France alone. With this
design we reproduce in
black and white two ex-
amples of embroidery
executed by Mrs. Rey-
nolds-Stephens, another
expert needlewoman, from
designs by Mr. Voysey.
The vine piece is quite
small, being rather less..........................
than half the size of this flB^gflBW6jHg|BBBBBBBHBB>iHBHHBBSKHBmHrarajnBmM
page. The leaves are T.„ „„
d . embroidered cover. designed by c f. a. voysey, worked by
worked in button-hole reynolds-stephens
224