Studio: international art (81.1921)

THE SOCIETY OF GRAPHIC ART

ILLUSTRATION TO " A MID-
SUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM "
BY W. HEATH ROBINSON

(L>y courtesy of Messrs. Con-
stable & Co.)

further the interests of British and Colonial
artists who produce, in monochrome,
examples of sound draughtsmanship in
pencil, pen-and-ink, chalk, charcoal, water
or oil colour, monotype, silver-point,
dry-point, and in the various methods of
engraving on metal, wood, stone, etc.
The scope and scale of the scheme is
purposely large, as it is desired to form,
for the first time in this country "—I am
still quoting the Society's own proclama-
tion—" a powerful and thoroughly com-
prehensive body representing what has
truly been described as the most potent
and varied side of British art." The

scheme originated with Mr. Frank L.
Emanuel, himself an artist whose sound
accomplishment in draughtsmanship, at
home with many mediums, is happiest
with pencil, and best seen in pictorial
interpretations of architecture. For years
he had had in mind the formation of such
a society for the benefit of black-and-
white draughtsmen, but only now when
the artists have pleasant proof that there
are collectors ready to buy good modern
drawings and original etchings, aquatints,
mezzotints, woodcuts and lithographs,
has the scheme seemed to come within the
range of practical politics. Mr. Emanuel's

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