STUDIO-TALK
'DISQUIETUDE, 1914. DRY-
POINT BY JAMES MCBEY
With these illustrations we give one the charm of the design, in which the
of a fireplace in a house at Byfleet, built subsidiary rowing and sailing boats are
from the design of Messrs. Walker and important factors. But the expressiveness
Harwood. Constructed of multi-coloured of the drawing, the command of the etch-
bricks with flush joints, this fireplace has ing, are masterly, else had we not realized
a very homely appearance, pleasing em- the atmosphere so completely filled with
phasis being given to the arch by the the heavy morning heat of the ambient
curved character of each brick and the sunshine. Mr. Lumsden is at last taking
slightly projecting centre bricks. 0 his proper place among the masters of
etching, and Ganges Boats, Morning, will
support him there. 0000
STUDIO-TALK. In Mr. James McBey's dry-point, Dis-
j . \ quietude, iqia, we find another triumph
(prom our own Correspondents). *c l- • ti. j • •
v e ' 01 graphic expression. ine drawing is
LONDON.—Mr. E. S. Lumsden has exquisite in its tender simplicity ; the face
found many motives for etching in of the young woman pressed against the
Benares and its Holy River, but seldom has hand of the upraised arm that supports it,
his fine sense of design been stirred with is instinct with the apprehension of un-
more beautiful and dignified result than it known terrors inseparable from the presage
was when he etched his Ganges Boats, of war. How eloquent the eyes are of the
Morning, seen here in reproduction. Every fears that grip the heart and haunt the day
detail of this large boat, of picturesque and the night! This dry-point was a sketch
local build and character, with its bamboo of Mrs. Martin Hardie, done in 1914, when
mast, its high matting-roofed cabin, helps the air was filled with war's alarms. 0
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'DISQUIETUDE, 1914. DRY-
POINT BY JAMES MCBEY
With these illustrations we give one the charm of the design, in which the
of a fireplace in a house at Byfleet, built subsidiary rowing and sailing boats are
from the design of Messrs. Walker and important factors. But the expressiveness
Harwood. Constructed of multi-coloured of the drawing, the command of the etch-
bricks with flush joints, this fireplace has ing, are masterly, else had we not realized
a very homely appearance, pleasing em- the atmosphere so completely filled with
phasis being given to the arch by the the heavy morning heat of the ambient
curved character of each brick and the sunshine. Mr. Lumsden is at last taking
slightly projecting centre bricks. 0 his proper place among the masters of
etching, and Ganges Boats, Morning, will
support him there. 0000
STUDIO-TALK. In Mr. James McBey's dry-point, Dis-
j . \ quietude, iqia, we find another triumph
(prom our own Correspondents). *c l- • ti. j • •
v e ' 01 graphic expression. ine drawing is
LONDON.—Mr. E. S. Lumsden has exquisite in its tender simplicity ; the face
found many motives for etching in of the young woman pressed against the
Benares and its Holy River, but seldom has hand of the upraised arm that supports it,
his fine sense of design been stirred with is instinct with the apprehension of un-
more beautiful and dignified result than it known terrors inseparable from the presage
was when he etched his Ganges Boats, of war. How eloquent the eyes are of the
Morning, seen here in reproduction. Every fears that grip the heart and haunt the day
detail of this large boat, of picturesque and the night! This dry-point was a sketch
local build and character, with its bamboo of Mrs. Martin Hardie, done in 1914, when
mast, its high matting-roofed cabin, helps the air was filled with war's alarms. 0
152