DOI issue:
No. 345 (December 1921)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21393#0296
STUDIO-TALK
MODEL THEATRE "JACK
AND THE BEANSTALK"
BY S. G. HULME BEAMAN
book will be divided between The
Children's League of Pity (N.S.P.C.C.),
the Children's Union (Waifs and Strays
Society), and the building and embellish-
ing of Titania's Palace, The palace, when
completed, will coyer about sixty square
feet, and will, it is hoped, eventually find
a home in one of our public institutions,
where it will stimulate the children's
interest in what the author calls " Tiny
Craft." aeiciaaa
The little model theatre illustrated on
this page, with its two scenes representing
" Jack and the Beanstalk," comes from the
studio-workshop of Mr. Hulme Beaman at
Golder's Green. The dramatis persons of
this theatre are not the cardboard charac-
ters of the toy-shop article, but are small
wooden figures with jointed arms, and the
scenery is of a simple description to allow
of easy duplication. 0000
Mrs, Dawson's colour-print By the
Sussex Downs, which we reproduce as a
280
supplement, is an aquatint, and therefore is
produced from a metal plate bitten with
acid like an etching. Though not of very
recent execution, it is a good and attractive
example of the artist's work, and proofs are
to be found in more than one public
collection. 00000
Mr. J. D. Batten who, as most students
and collectors of the colour woodcut know,
was with Mr. Morley Fletcher mainly
responsible for the introduction of the
Japanese method into England, has, after
relinquishing the practice of this art for
some years, lately resumed it, and The
Centaur, here reproduced, is one of the
prints resulting from this resumption. The
proof reproduced is described as a " four-
block print." As to this Mr. Batten explains
that he has used two planks of pearwood,
each cut on both sides, but there are more
" THE CENTAUR." FROM
A COLOUR PRINT BY
JOHN D. BATTEN
MODEL THEATRE "JACK
AND THE BEANSTALK"
BY S. G. HULME BEAMAN
book will be divided between The
Children's League of Pity (N.S.P.C.C.),
the Children's Union (Waifs and Strays
Society), and the building and embellish-
ing of Titania's Palace, The palace, when
completed, will coyer about sixty square
feet, and will, it is hoped, eventually find
a home in one of our public institutions,
where it will stimulate the children's
interest in what the author calls " Tiny
Craft." aeiciaaa
The little model theatre illustrated on
this page, with its two scenes representing
" Jack and the Beanstalk," comes from the
studio-workshop of Mr. Hulme Beaman at
Golder's Green. The dramatis persons of
this theatre are not the cardboard charac-
ters of the toy-shop article, but are small
wooden figures with jointed arms, and the
scenery is of a simple description to allow
of easy duplication. 0000
Mrs, Dawson's colour-print By the
Sussex Downs, which we reproduce as a
280
supplement, is an aquatint, and therefore is
produced from a metal plate bitten with
acid like an etching. Though not of very
recent execution, it is a good and attractive
example of the artist's work, and proofs are
to be found in more than one public
collection. 00000
Mr. J. D. Batten who, as most students
and collectors of the colour woodcut know,
was with Mr. Morley Fletcher mainly
responsible for the introduction of the
Japanese method into England, has, after
relinquishing the practice of this art for
some years, lately resumed it, and The
Centaur, here reproduced, is one of the
prints resulting from this resumption. The
proof reproduced is described as a " four-
block print." As to this Mr. Batten explains
that he has used two planks of pearwood,
each cut on both sides, but there are more
" THE CENTAUR." FROM
A COLOUR PRINT BY
JOHN D. BATTEN