Frederick Walker and his works . n of the Dudley Gallery in by the preliminary study in the rich collection of Mr. J. , this is rather too much in the academic and impersonalstyle, too little suggestive of the element of weirdness and mystery in thestory itself. Not to be classed as caricatures, though a gentle vein of merriment,appropriate, and indeed, indispensable under the circumstances, pervadesthem, are the three beautiful designs for invitation cards executed forMr. Arthur J. Lewis when he played host to the Moray Minstrels atMoray Lodge, Campden Hill. Of the exq
Frederick Walker and his works . n of the Dudley Gallery in by the preliminary study in the rich collection of Mr. J. , this is rather too much in the academic and impersonalstyle, too little suggestive of the element of weirdness and mystery in thestory itself. Not to be classed as caricatures, though a gentle vein of merriment,appropriate, and indeed, indispensable under the circumstances, pervadesthem, are the three beautiful designs for invitation cards executed forMr. Arthur J. Lewis when he played host to the Moray Minstrels atMoray Lodge, Campden Hill. Of the exquisite delicacy of these littledecorative compositions the readers of the Portfolio have the means ofjudging from the reproductions now given for the first time—in two1 In the Portfolio, volume for 1875. C 2 36 FREDERICK WALKER instances from the cards themselves, in the third from Walkers owndesign. It is curious that this mock-Greek group of musicians anddancers, parodying, but ever so slightly, some Anacreontic scene from a. The IVoman in White. Design for a Poster. red-on-black vase of the best period, is Walkers only extant attempt togive form to a subject actually and avowedly classical, although the styleof ancient Greece, and especially its style in sculptural relief, wasrarely absent from what he did in his later years. The dates of these
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