DOI issue:
No. 341 (August 1921)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0089
STUDIO-TALK
"WHITSTABLE BEACH." PEN-
DRAWING BY H. WEAVER HAWKINS
he received £250, was exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1850. The true value
of a work of art, however, is not to be
measured by monetary standards, but
by the wholesome enjoyment it yields to
those who behold it, and from this point
of view the value of this public acquisition
is indisputable. Carlyle, had he been
alive, might have been prompted to growl,
as he did when he visited Millais at Palace
Gate and saw how prosperous he had
become: " There are more fools in the
world than I thought there were," but
after all £10,000 is a trifle compared with
the sums paid to a couple of boxers for
a brief bout of fisticuffs recently. The
picture has been at the Tate Gallery on
loan for some ten years and will now in all
likelihood remain there permanently. e>
The drawings here reproduced do not
bntl».»
" BORSTAL HILL, WHITSTABLE." PEN-
DRAWING BY H. WEAVER HAWKINS
73
"WHITSTABLE BEACH." PEN-
DRAWING BY H. WEAVER HAWKINS
he received £250, was exhibited at the
Royal Academy in 1850. The true value
of a work of art, however, is not to be
measured by monetary standards, but
by the wholesome enjoyment it yields to
those who behold it, and from this point
of view the value of this public acquisition
is indisputable. Carlyle, had he been
alive, might have been prompted to growl,
as he did when he visited Millais at Palace
Gate and saw how prosperous he had
become: " There are more fools in the
world than I thought there were," but
after all £10,000 is a trifle compared with
the sums paid to a couple of boxers for
a brief bout of fisticuffs recently. The
picture has been at the Tate Gallery on
loan for some ten years and will now in all
likelihood remain there permanently. e>
The drawings here reproduced do not
bntl».»
" BORSTAL HILL, WHITSTABLE." PEN-
DRAWING BY H. WEAVER HAWKINS
73