DOI issue:
No. 387 (September 1924)
DOI article:[Notes: one hundred and ninety-three illustrations]
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21400#0178
LONDON
Mr. R. E. Higgins, represents excellently of lead-work applied to garden-decoration
an artist who has a real sense of humour by a designer who has a thorough under-
and a definite power of expressing it standing of his medium's decorative poten-
pictorially. His decorative method is very tialities—Mr. G. P. Bankart. a a
well considered, and it gives him unusually It is proposed to place a memorial
effective results. Miss Dorothy Coke's tablet to Wenceslaus Hollar in St.
water-colour is notable for its judicious Margaret's, Westminster. His wonderful
balance of design and for its unaffected series of etchings present the most vivid
manner of treatment; and the pieces record of London in the seventeenth
of sculpture by Mr. Garbe claim con- century, and Londoners owe some token
sideration, not only for their technical of recognition to this indefatigable etcher
soundness but also for the imaginative of Prague, who spent most of his life in
qualities by which they are distinguished. London. The famous antiquary George
A particular interest attaches to Miss Vertue actually designed a tablet, showing
Kinkead's portrait of Joseph Conrad at it in an engraving appended to his Cata-
the present moment, since it is but a few logue of Hollar's Works in 1745. 0
weeks since the world of English letters was The cost of carrying out Vertue's
saddened by the news of the death of one design with its inscription in a marble
of its most distinguished sons. The tablet will be about £120, and those inter-
painting succeeds admirably in showing ested are asked to send subscriptions, not
not only the subtle psychologist we lands- exceeding one guinea, to Professor Arthur
men know, but also the clear-eyed, Hind at the British Museum. In case
resolute ship-master. 000 the required sum is not reached by small
Our other illustrations include a most subscriptions, guarantees of further help
refined and unaffected portrait study by from any who are particularly interested
Dod Procter, and an important example would be appreciated. 000
158
" THE SALE MEADOW, LYMINGE
WATER-COLOUR BY DOROTHY COKE
Mr. R. E. Higgins, represents excellently of lead-work applied to garden-decoration
an artist who has a real sense of humour by a designer who has a thorough under-
and a definite power of expressing it standing of his medium's decorative poten-
pictorially. His decorative method is very tialities—Mr. G. P. Bankart. a a
well considered, and it gives him unusually It is proposed to place a memorial
effective results. Miss Dorothy Coke's tablet to Wenceslaus Hollar in St.
water-colour is notable for its judicious Margaret's, Westminster. His wonderful
balance of design and for its unaffected series of etchings present the most vivid
manner of treatment; and the pieces record of London in the seventeenth
of sculpture by Mr. Garbe claim con- century, and Londoners owe some token
sideration, not only for their technical of recognition to this indefatigable etcher
soundness but also for the imaginative of Prague, who spent most of his life in
qualities by which they are distinguished. London. The famous antiquary George
A particular interest attaches to Miss Vertue actually designed a tablet, showing
Kinkead's portrait of Joseph Conrad at it in an engraving appended to his Cata-
the present moment, since it is but a few logue of Hollar's Works in 1745. 0
weeks since the world of English letters was The cost of carrying out Vertue's
saddened by the news of the death of one design with its inscription in a marble
of its most distinguished sons. The tablet will be about £120, and those inter-
painting succeeds admirably in showing ested are asked to send subscriptions, not
not only the subtle psychologist we lands- exceeding one guinea, to Professor Arthur
men know, but also the clear-eyed, Hind at the British Museum. In case
resolute ship-master. 000 the required sum is not reached by small
Our other illustrations include a most subscriptions, guarantees of further help
refined and unaffected portrait study by from any who are particularly interested
Dod Procter, and an important example would be appreciated. 000
158
" THE SALE MEADOW, LYMINGE
WATER-COLOUR BY DOROTHY COKE