DOI Heft:
No. 262 (January 1915)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21211#0304
Studio- Talk
SILVER PRESENTATION SHIELD DESIGNED BY MRS.
SEYMOUR FANNIN AND PHILLIP OXLEY ; EXECUTED
BY JAMES DIXON AND SONS
had remained undisturbed for over two hundred
years. There was also a male portrait by Gains-
borough of exceptional worth, and The Letter
Received, perhaps the most beautiful Metsu in
existence, with its companion The Letter Writer,
together with a few other works of some import-
ance by old masters.
The shield illustrated on this page is one that
was presented to Sir Hildred Carlile, M.P., by his
constituents at St. Albans some time ago. Save as
to the figures, which were designed by Mr. Phillip
Oxley, of Desford, the work is that of Mrs. Sey-
mour Fannin (rtfe Slade), of St. Albans, where she
received her art training.
Mr. Charles Vyse's modelled group in bronzed
plaster, here shown, figured in an exhibition of Arts
and Crafts held at the Old Monastery, Rye, in the
early part of last autumn. The exhibition, organ-
ised by Mr. J. P. Steele, contained an interesting
variety of work contributed by many of the leading
workers associated with the Arts and Crafts move-
ment, prominent among them being Mr. Walter
Crane, Mr. Anning Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Stabler, Mr.
James Guthrie, Mr. Heywood Sumner, and Miss
Jessie Bayes. _
In a lecture on " Art, Morals, and the War"
delivered at Oxford on November 12, Mr. Selwyn
Image, the Slade Professor of Fine Art in the
University, set forth the vital issues of the gigantic
struggle in which this country is now engaged.
" We are," he said, " in the midst of a war, literally
and simply, of Ideals, of quite fundamental
Principles, bed-rock principles as the phrase goes,
as to what Human Civilisation means. ... In a
quite vital sense we are at war to preserve our own
national independence. If Germany—I mean by
Germany throughout the Dominant Military Caste
in Germany—could really have her way in this war,
if she could finally bring to pass that which she set
out to bring to pass, which this many a day she has
dreamed of and strenuously prepared for, there
would no more be any England as you and I know
it and love it. . . . It is most important, it is vital,
GROUP IN BRONZED PLASTER. BY CHARLES VYSE
3OI
SILVER PRESENTATION SHIELD DESIGNED BY MRS.
SEYMOUR FANNIN AND PHILLIP OXLEY ; EXECUTED
BY JAMES DIXON AND SONS
had remained undisturbed for over two hundred
years. There was also a male portrait by Gains-
borough of exceptional worth, and The Letter
Received, perhaps the most beautiful Metsu in
existence, with its companion The Letter Writer,
together with a few other works of some import-
ance by old masters.
The shield illustrated on this page is one that
was presented to Sir Hildred Carlile, M.P., by his
constituents at St. Albans some time ago. Save as
to the figures, which were designed by Mr. Phillip
Oxley, of Desford, the work is that of Mrs. Sey-
mour Fannin (rtfe Slade), of St. Albans, where she
received her art training.
Mr. Charles Vyse's modelled group in bronzed
plaster, here shown, figured in an exhibition of Arts
and Crafts held at the Old Monastery, Rye, in the
early part of last autumn. The exhibition, organ-
ised by Mr. J. P. Steele, contained an interesting
variety of work contributed by many of the leading
workers associated with the Arts and Crafts move-
ment, prominent among them being Mr. Walter
Crane, Mr. Anning Bell, Mr. and Mrs. Stabler, Mr.
James Guthrie, Mr. Heywood Sumner, and Miss
Jessie Bayes. _
In a lecture on " Art, Morals, and the War"
delivered at Oxford on November 12, Mr. Selwyn
Image, the Slade Professor of Fine Art in the
University, set forth the vital issues of the gigantic
struggle in which this country is now engaged.
" We are," he said, " in the midst of a war, literally
and simply, of Ideals, of quite fundamental
Principles, bed-rock principles as the phrase goes,
as to what Human Civilisation means. ... In a
quite vital sense we are at war to preserve our own
national independence. If Germany—I mean by
Germany throughout the Dominant Military Caste
in Germany—could really have her way in this war,
if she could finally bring to pass that which she set
out to bring to pass, which this many a day she has
dreamed of and strenuously prepared for, there
would no more be any England as you and I know
it and love it. . . . It is most important, it is vital,
GROUP IN BRONZED PLASTER. BY CHARLES VYSE
3OI