Studio: international art (69.1916)

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Studio- Talk

would have been a thousand pities if this remark- of Verona." The calligraphy is beautifully executed,
able object had been separated from its fellows in and the ornamental penwork and figure composi-
the museum, as it assuredly would have been had tions are entirely appropriate to the design as a
it accompanied the rest of Sir Trevor Lawrence's whole,
collection to the sale which takes
place at Christie's next month, for
the authorities have now no money to
expend on acquisitions.

Our illustration of an illuminated
manuscript designed and executed by
Miss Jessie Bayes is taken from the
opening folios to a very handsome thin
volume of twenty-five decorated pages
in the possession of Mr. T. W. Lamont,
of New York. The work is done on
vellum and gilded, and the subjects
for the lettering are taken from Shake-
speare's " Songs," the present illustra-
tion being readily recognised as the
song of the musicians in Act IV.
Scene 11 of " The Two Gentlemen

i MARiA„UAN„DiEMENH

RYOSHI-BUNKO OR BOX FOR PAPERS, FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE SIR TREVOR LAWRENCE, BT.,
PRESENTED BY HIS FAMILY TO THE VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM

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