DOI Heft:
No. 286 (January 1917)
DOI Artikel:Whitley, William Thomas: Arts and crafts at the Royal Academy, [3]
DOI Seite / Zitierlink:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.24575#0204
The Arts and Crafts Exhibition
times at Tyburn or on the way thither from the Mr. Anning Bell were placed. Here most of the
City. It represents a seventeenth-century crowd pottery in the exhibition was shown, but Mr.
gathered round a condemned man tied to the Thackeray Turner's painted bowl, with its graceful
hurdle on which he is being drawn to the place internal decoration of floral forms, was exhibited
of execution and drinking from a cup held to his in the little bedroom designed and arranged by
lips by a charitable bystander. Miss Ethel Kirk- Mr. and Mrs. Christie and Mr. F. W. Troup.
Patrick's woodcut in colour, Mount's Bay, which is The ebony china cabinet designed by Mr. Ernest
also illustrated, is treated in the right manner for W. Gimson and executed by Mr. E. Smith will be
the kind of reproduction selected, and the simple remembered as one of the most attractive pieces
tones of the blue water and pale grey sky, the of furniture in the room arranged by Mr. Gimson
white quays and houses, and the orange-coloured and Miss May Morris.
sails of the fishing boats combine to make a There still remain to be illustrated, in addition to
pleasing picture. one or two things which could not be reproduced
Mr. Wallace Elliot's clock case from a design in time for this article, some examples from the
by Mr. Allan F. Vigers is of camwood (veneer on excellent collection of metal-work and jewellery
mahogany), inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory, already briefly noticed in a preceding article,
The narrow edging of ivory round the entire and some things from the Retrospective Room,
border is a happy inspiration, contrasting as it one of the most interesting sections of the
does with the rich colour of the wood and the exhibition. These will appear in an early
dull silver and gold of the clock-face and its number. W. T. Whitley.
surroundings. The clock
was shown at the exhibition
in Domus r, where on the BBS ^SS^SS^SSSSSSSSSSSSS^.
wall close by it was hung
the subject of another illus-
tration this month, the ■
stained wood mirror-frame
by Miss J. A. Labrousse,
remarkable for its elaborate
scheme of minute decora- HttHBHB
tion in which figures and
peacocks are introduced.
In Domus i also was ex-
hibited the painted ebony
and walnut cabinet with
seven small drawers, made
and decorated by Mrs.
Louise Powell and Mr.
S. H. Barnsley. Mrs.
Powell and her husband,
Mr. Alfred H. Powell, are
jointly responsible for the
blue and white- jar, the
lustre jug with oak-tree ^^^^Hjflfl
design, and the round dish
with the stag, three pieces
included in the extremely m
interesting case of pottery
shown by these artists in
the Municipal Room —
the room in which the
large wall-decorations by ■
Mr. Clausen, Mr. Sims, binding in black pigskin of malory's " morte d'arthur " (ashendene press).
Mr. Greiffenhagen and by Katharine adams (see description on p. 190)
192
times at Tyburn or on the way thither from the Mr. Anning Bell were placed. Here most of the
City. It represents a seventeenth-century crowd pottery in the exhibition was shown, but Mr.
gathered round a condemned man tied to the Thackeray Turner's painted bowl, with its graceful
hurdle on which he is being drawn to the place internal decoration of floral forms, was exhibited
of execution and drinking from a cup held to his in the little bedroom designed and arranged by
lips by a charitable bystander. Miss Ethel Kirk- Mr. and Mrs. Christie and Mr. F. W. Troup.
Patrick's woodcut in colour, Mount's Bay, which is The ebony china cabinet designed by Mr. Ernest
also illustrated, is treated in the right manner for W. Gimson and executed by Mr. E. Smith will be
the kind of reproduction selected, and the simple remembered as one of the most attractive pieces
tones of the blue water and pale grey sky, the of furniture in the room arranged by Mr. Gimson
white quays and houses, and the orange-coloured and Miss May Morris.
sails of the fishing boats combine to make a There still remain to be illustrated, in addition to
pleasing picture. one or two things which could not be reproduced
Mr. Wallace Elliot's clock case from a design in time for this article, some examples from the
by Mr. Allan F. Vigers is of camwood (veneer on excellent collection of metal-work and jewellery
mahogany), inlaid with mother-of-pearl and ivory, already briefly noticed in a preceding article,
The narrow edging of ivory round the entire and some things from the Retrospective Room,
border is a happy inspiration, contrasting as it one of the most interesting sections of the
does with the rich colour of the wood and the exhibition. These will appear in an early
dull silver and gold of the clock-face and its number. W. T. Whitley.
surroundings. The clock
was shown at the exhibition
in Domus r, where on the BBS ^SS^SS^SSSSSSSSSSSSS^.
wall close by it was hung
the subject of another illus-
tration this month, the ■
stained wood mirror-frame
by Miss J. A. Labrousse,
remarkable for its elaborate
scheme of minute decora- HttHBHB
tion in which figures and
peacocks are introduced.
In Domus i also was ex-
hibited the painted ebony
and walnut cabinet with
seven small drawers, made
and decorated by Mrs.
Louise Powell and Mr.
S. H. Barnsley. Mrs.
Powell and her husband,
Mr. Alfred H. Powell, are
jointly responsible for the
blue and white- jar, the
lustre jug with oak-tree ^^^^Hjflfl
design, and the round dish
with the stag, three pieces
included in the extremely m
interesting case of pottery
shown by these artists in
the Municipal Room —
the room in which the
large wall-decorations by ■
Mr. Clausen, Mr. Sims, binding in black pigskin of malory's " morte d'arthur " (ashendene press).
Mr. Greiffenhagen and by Katharine adams (see description on p. 190)
192