. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . y in Brangwynsetched work. Several plates, and notably the MarketSquare, Montreuil, and The Brewery, Bruges, showthat his hand can be as light as Whistlers, while keepingits own sign manual. Elsewhere, as in the romanticetching of Old Hammersmith, with its shadowed fore-ground where bargemen rest and talk, with its middledistance of sunlit carts, horses, and figures, there is a pro-fusion of detail treated with a Mdryon-like precision, andthe factories arainst the skv are as attractive in theirsunny magic as ancient churches. But it is not fair to pickout
. Frank Brangwyn and his work. 1911 . y in Brangwynsetched work. Several plates, and notably the MarketSquare, Montreuil, and The Brewery, Bruges, showthat his hand can be as light as Whistlers, while keepingits own sign manual. Elsewhere, as in the romanticetching of Old Hammersmith, with its shadowed fore-ground where bargemen rest and talk, with its middledistance of sunlit carts, horses, and figures, there is a pro-fusion of detail treated with a Mdryon-like precision, andthe factories arainst the skv are as attractive in theirsunny magic as ancient churches. But it is not fair to pickout examples when all is good in its own way. A de-scriptive list has been published of one hundred and thirty-three, including such noble proofs as The Santa Mariadella Salute, Venice, The Ghent Gate, Bruges, TheGate of Montreuil-sur-Mer, and The Mill Bridge, Mont-reuil, The Black Mill, Winchelsea, The Castello dellaZiza, Palermo, The Bridge, Barnard Castle, The Coal-Pit, with its procession of workmen carrying the wounded,200 C/3 I O ^. Etchings : and Summary of Characteristics Old Kew Bridge, The Paper Mill, with its exquisitediffused light, The Rialto, Venice, and The Boat-Builders, Venice, Windmills, Bruges, The Sawyers,Old Houses, Ghent, The Church of Sainte-Saulve,Montreuil, and The Church of Sainte-Austreberthe,Montreuil, Santa Sophia, Constantinople, Building theNew Victoria and Albert Museum, South Kensington,The Tan-Pit, The Breaking up of the Hannibal, and Breaking up the Caledonia^ These etchings, and manyothers, have been exhibited many times; and as to themore recent work—at Dixmude, at Furnes, at Eu, atMessina—it will soon be as well known. The Apse ofthe Cathedral at Messina is a masterpiece; it shouldhang as a pendant with The Cathedral of Eu. Among the foreign devotees of Brangwyn there arecritics who say that his etchings are even more note-worthy than his pictures and mural decorations. M. ^ve has expressed this opinion, speaking of the somptueuses gr
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