DOI issue:
No. 311 (February 1919)
DOI article:Salaman, Malcolm C.: The woodcuts and colour-prints of Captain Robert Gibbings
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21357#0024
The IVoodcuts and Colour-Prints of Captain Robert Gibbings
"the city walls, salonica " from a wood-block print by robert gibbings
of design and an emotional beauty of luminous in Malta, with its colour-scheme, suggestive of
tone, which has been emphasized by printing, hot sunlight, revealed in a pattern of three
over the gradated shades of blue, a tone of green tints printed from two blocks, yet The Llan-
in the lower arborial portion of the picture, and dovery Castle might again be a very popular
a dark red in the upper. print. In the drawing
A print of real distinc- ^^^SS^^^ of the deck and rigging
tion, its pictorial motive of this ill-fated hospital
suggested by a subject JVp ^^^v srirP Captain Gibbings
of tragic significance, /f shows suggestively the
and expressed with a ^^^a^M S^^a ^\ intimate knowledge of
beautiful dignity of Imk ^HBBHHBM ^ \\ hei aspect under a blaz-
design, is The Retreat InSffpff!!^^ ing sun gained during
from Serbia. Here the I __~ —HI his two voyages on her
tone of the dark sky I ■ HfllEpfi II from Salonica to Malta,
has been achieved by \H fSI and thence homeward,
printing the blue over \U In this print, done from
the black, and the effect yH Bv four blocks, the three
is valuable in the tonal \H By tmts wrtn *he black
scheme of the picture ; \B| ^Ej5 ■EK' of the key-block ade-
and here the artist, in Ws^ quatcly meet the re-
the engraving of the wf^^^ quirements of pictorial
bridge, shows a rich suggestion and decora-
j • j- • . ,, tail-piece. from a wood-block print ,. n j_ 21 .
and judicious use of the By robert gibbings twm. But, now that
white line. This is a the war is over, Cap-
print that would lend dignity to any wall it tain Gibbings, wisely recognizing the universal
might decorate, and its simplicity of means call for brightness and charm, is engaged upon
should render the printing of it possible in the some delightful schemes for coloui-prints, with
large numbers warranted by the appeal of its his- the pictorial graces of childhood and girlhood
toric subject and distinguished artistic quality, decoratively appealing. Let us hope that when
And though there might be no more than a these are completed the editions will not be
collector's demand for such a print as A Corner limited.
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"the city walls, salonica " from a wood-block print by robert gibbings
of design and an emotional beauty of luminous in Malta, with its colour-scheme, suggestive of
tone, which has been emphasized by printing, hot sunlight, revealed in a pattern of three
over the gradated shades of blue, a tone of green tints printed from two blocks, yet The Llan-
in the lower arborial portion of the picture, and dovery Castle might again be a very popular
a dark red in the upper. print. In the drawing
A print of real distinc- ^^^SS^^^ of the deck and rigging
tion, its pictorial motive of this ill-fated hospital
suggested by a subject JVp ^^^v srirP Captain Gibbings
of tragic significance, /f shows suggestively the
and expressed with a ^^^a^M S^^a ^\ intimate knowledge of
beautiful dignity of Imk ^HBBHHBM ^ \\ hei aspect under a blaz-
design, is The Retreat InSffpff!!^^ ing sun gained during
from Serbia. Here the I __~ —HI his two voyages on her
tone of the dark sky I ■ HfllEpfi II from Salonica to Malta,
has been achieved by \H fSI and thence homeward,
printing the blue over \U In this print, done from
the black, and the effect yH Bv four blocks, the three
is valuable in the tonal \H By tmts wrtn *he black
scheme of the picture ; \B| ^Ej5 ■EK' of the key-block ade-
and here the artist, in Ws^ quatcly meet the re-
the engraving of the wf^^^ quirements of pictorial
bridge, shows a rich suggestion and decora-
j • j- • . ,, tail-piece. from a wood-block print ,. n j_ 21 .
and judicious use of the By robert gibbings twm. But, now that
white line. This is a the war is over, Cap-
print that would lend dignity to any wall it tain Gibbings, wisely recognizing the universal
might decorate, and its simplicity of means call for brightness and charm, is engaged upon
should render the printing of it possible in the some delightful schemes for coloui-prints, with
large numbers warranted by the appeal of its his- the pictorial graces of childhood and girlhood
toric subject and distinguished artistic quality, decoratively appealing. Let us hope that when
And though there might be no more than a these are completed the editions will not be
collector's demand for such a print as A Corner limited.
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