DOI issue:
No. 183 (February 1925)
DOI article:Old buildings: drawings by Margaret Delisle Burns
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0088
OLD BUILDINGS
white smoke made by the central heating ful in the setting of Naples ; but as a city
of America in a dim atmosphere, with New York is much more beautiful, and
the Penn statue vaguely seen overlooking many artists of to-day in etching and in
the roofs of the older houses of an age drawing have felt the peculiar attraction of
which had not yet scraped the sky. In cities. 00000a
the present number two drawings of Margaret Delisle Burns has made many
Rapallo Churches are given and two of drawings of the same type, the subjects
Hampstead houses. The Chiesa delle being old houses in various parts of Eng-
Chiarisse has been a conventual chapel land. For example, there is a drawing of
and the attached cloister has been par- " Paycocks," the famous house at Cogges-
tially destroyed. This explains the broken hall, lately presented by Mr. Noel Buxton
surface towards the roadway. The other to the National Trust, and her drawing of
smaller church is of about the same date the Manor House, at West Hoathby, was
—the sixteenth century. Both drawings exhibited at the Goupil Gallery. Drawings
were made about a year ago. They differ of Southwold Church and of Hinton High
in that one shows the street life of to-day, Poplars, a Suffolk farmhouse, and of the
taking up into itself a building from an Gate of Honour at Caius College, Cam-
earlier time ; while the other church stands bridge, are of earlier date. The artist has
in a quiet of its own, apart from men. attempted to express the light and atmos-
Of the Hampstead drawings, that of phere which are distinctive of East Anglia.
Capo di Monte shows the house once She has recently been in Italy and has
inhabited by the famous Mrs. Siddons. brought back drawings of Siena, Arezzo,
The feeling in this drawing has some of Cortona, Perugia, Assisi and Florence,
the character of De la Mare's poem, " The These will perhaps be exhibited at some
Listeners "—" Never the least stir made later date ; but meantime the artist is
the listeners . . . ." The other Hamp-
stead house, in Holly Mount, is of the late
eighteenth century; the original drawing
depends considerably on its colouring for
its effect. The bright clean colour of the
water-colours is made more emphatic by
the determined and vigorous drawing. 0
These drawings show old buildings
separately, but the artist has also made
studies of streets and groups of houses.
Among the Italian drawings there is one
of the whole of Rapallo, seen from an
outer point of the bay, and one of the
village of San Michele di Pagana. The
colour washes on old houses in that part
of Italy are often stained and broken by
fantastic decoration : there is, therefore, a
good subject in them to suggest the
method here illustrated. In Hampstead
the artist has made some drawings of the
Fair on the Heath on bank holidays, and
here also the lines and shapes of the
booths, and the surrounding trees give
opportunity for skilful drawing as well as
bright colour. It is strange that in
modern literature there should be so little
expression of the characteristic beauty of
man-made scenery in the midst of which
most of us moderns live. Compare Naples " t0rre „dei bianchi, ra-
. , ,t tr , _t . r \ pallo. water-colour
with New York. Nature is more wonder- by mrs. m. delisle burns
82
white smoke made by the central heating ful in the setting of Naples ; but as a city
of America in a dim atmosphere, with New York is much more beautiful, and
the Penn statue vaguely seen overlooking many artists of to-day in etching and in
the roofs of the older houses of an age drawing have felt the peculiar attraction of
which had not yet scraped the sky. In cities. 00000a
the present number two drawings of Margaret Delisle Burns has made many
Rapallo Churches are given and two of drawings of the same type, the subjects
Hampstead houses. The Chiesa delle being old houses in various parts of Eng-
Chiarisse has been a conventual chapel land. For example, there is a drawing of
and the attached cloister has been par- " Paycocks," the famous house at Cogges-
tially destroyed. This explains the broken hall, lately presented by Mr. Noel Buxton
surface towards the roadway. The other to the National Trust, and her drawing of
smaller church is of about the same date the Manor House, at West Hoathby, was
—the sixteenth century. Both drawings exhibited at the Goupil Gallery. Drawings
were made about a year ago. They differ of Southwold Church and of Hinton High
in that one shows the street life of to-day, Poplars, a Suffolk farmhouse, and of the
taking up into itself a building from an Gate of Honour at Caius College, Cam-
earlier time ; while the other church stands bridge, are of earlier date. The artist has
in a quiet of its own, apart from men. attempted to express the light and atmos-
Of the Hampstead drawings, that of phere which are distinctive of East Anglia.
Capo di Monte shows the house once She has recently been in Italy and has
inhabited by the famous Mrs. Siddons. brought back drawings of Siena, Arezzo,
The feeling in this drawing has some of Cortona, Perugia, Assisi and Florence,
the character of De la Mare's poem, " The These will perhaps be exhibited at some
Listeners "—" Never the least stir made later date ; but meantime the artist is
the listeners . . . ." The other Hamp-
stead house, in Holly Mount, is of the late
eighteenth century; the original drawing
depends considerably on its colouring for
its effect. The bright clean colour of the
water-colours is made more emphatic by
the determined and vigorous drawing. 0
These drawings show old buildings
separately, but the artist has also made
studies of streets and groups of houses.
Among the Italian drawings there is one
of the whole of Rapallo, seen from an
outer point of the bay, and one of the
village of San Michele di Pagana. The
colour washes on old houses in that part
of Italy are often stained and broken by
fantastic decoration : there is, therefore, a
good subject in them to suggest the
method here illustrated. In Hampstead
the artist has made some drawings of the
Fair on the Heath on bank holidays, and
here also the lines and shapes of the
booths, and the surrounding trees give
opportunity for skilful drawing as well as
bright colour. It is strange that in
modern literature there should be so little
expression of the characteristic beauty of
man-made scenery in the midst of which
most of us moderns live. Compare Naples " t0rre „dei bianchi, ra-
. , ,t tr , _t . r \ pallo. water-colour
with New York. Nature is more wonder- by mrs. m. delisle burns
82