DOI Heft:
No. 375 (June 1924)
DOI Artikel:[Notes: two hundred and twenty-one illustrations]
DOI Artikel:Reviews
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21399#0349
LONDON
BOOKBINDING IN GREEN
MOROCCO. BY MRS.
DORA KNIGHT
demonstration of the greatness of Turner's
genius. The examples of his achievement
which were brought together included work
done at different periods of his life and
represented most of the more important
phases of his practice ; and among them
were many paintings of superlative quality.
Beside them the De Wints looked pon-
derous and matter-of-fact and Cox’s land-
scapes seemed rather empty and dull,,
though there were excellent things by both,
these masters. But the assertion of Turner’s
mastery was so triumphant that no other
painters could have been expected to bear
comparison with him or to hold their
own in his company. a a &
There have been lately a number of
other exhibitions of considerable import-
ance. At the Leicester Galleries Mr.
Algernon Talmage showed a series of
landscape paintings which had much,
charm as sensitive records of nature and
as sound examples of robustly direct
craftsmanship; and Mr. Gerald Acker-
mann a number of water-colours which.
sonnet. On the right is to be seen old
Westminster Hall as it appeared before the
erection of the Houses of Parliament, the
Abbey and Saint Margaret’s. The turrets
and roofs of Saint Stephen’s Chapel (des-
troyed by fire in 1834) continue the line of
Westminster Hall. Further down the river
is the Church of Saint John the Evangelist,
at Millbank, with four curious turrets sur-
mounting its corners ; and in the distance,
on the other bank, is Lambeth Palace. This
picture, which has not hitherto been re-
corded, was found some time ago, in
Dublin, by Mr. Thomas Bodkin, by whose
permission we here reproduce it for the
first time. It is in a state of admirable pre-
servation and measures 17m. high by 29m.
wide. It was at one time in the collection
of Peter Purcell, Thackeray’s host, immor-
talised, though not by name, in the “ Irish
Sketch Book.” On his death it was ex-
hibited by his widow in the great Irish
Exhibition of 1861, and it remained till
lately in the possession of the family. 0
The exhibition of water-colours by
Turner, David Cox, and De Wint, at
Messrs. Agnew's galleries—for the benefit
of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institu-
tion—provided a singularly convincing
330
“ BANK HOLIDAY i THE:
SWINGS.” LITHOGRAPH
BY RANDOLPH SCHWABE
(St. George’s Gallery))
BOOKBINDING IN GREEN
MOROCCO. BY MRS.
DORA KNIGHT
demonstration of the greatness of Turner's
genius. The examples of his achievement
which were brought together included work
done at different periods of his life and
represented most of the more important
phases of his practice ; and among them
were many paintings of superlative quality.
Beside them the De Wints looked pon-
derous and matter-of-fact and Cox’s land-
scapes seemed rather empty and dull,,
though there were excellent things by both,
these masters. But the assertion of Turner’s
mastery was so triumphant that no other
painters could have been expected to bear
comparison with him or to hold their
own in his company. a a &
There have been lately a number of
other exhibitions of considerable import-
ance. At the Leicester Galleries Mr.
Algernon Talmage showed a series of
landscape paintings which had much,
charm as sensitive records of nature and
as sound examples of robustly direct
craftsmanship; and Mr. Gerald Acker-
mann a number of water-colours which.
sonnet. On the right is to be seen old
Westminster Hall as it appeared before the
erection of the Houses of Parliament, the
Abbey and Saint Margaret’s. The turrets
and roofs of Saint Stephen’s Chapel (des-
troyed by fire in 1834) continue the line of
Westminster Hall. Further down the river
is the Church of Saint John the Evangelist,
at Millbank, with four curious turrets sur-
mounting its corners ; and in the distance,
on the other bank, is Lambeth Palace. This
picture, which has not hitherto been re-
corded, was found some time ago, in
Dublin, by Mr. Thomas Bodkin, by whose
permission we here reproduce it for the
first time. It is in a state of admirable pre-
servation and measures 17m. high by 29m.
wide. It was at one time in the collection
of Peter Purcell, Thackeray’s host, immor-
talised, though not by name, in the “ Irish
Sketch Book.” On his death it was ex-
hibited by his widow in the great Irish
Exhibition of 1861, and it remained till
lately in the possession of the family. 0
The exhibition of water-colours by
Turner, David Cox, and De Wint, at
Messrs. Agnew's galleries—for the benefit
of the Artists’ General Benevolent Institu-
tion—provided a singularly convincing
330
“ BANK HOLIDAY i THE:
SWINGS.” LITHOGRAPH
BY RANDOLPH SCHWABE
(St. George’s Gallery))