Palermo, Cappella Reale (from a Water-colour Sketch by Walter Crane) 241
The Double Cube Room, Wilton House 243, 245
Method of Working with the Brush in Gesso 249
Filling for Picture Frame in Gesso Duro, designed by Walter Crane 250
Design for a Bell-pull, modelled in Gesso, by Walter Crane 251
Gesso Panel, design for the Art Workers’ Guild, by Walter Crane 253
The Dance (Frieze Panel in Gesso), designed by Walter Crane 254
Picture Frame in Oak with Gesso filling, designed by Walter Crane 255
Treatment of Form in Gesso Decoration, by Walter Crane 256
System of Modelling with the Brush in Gesso 257
Gesso Decoration at 1a, Holland Park, by Walter Crane, the woodwork by Philip Webb 258, 259, 260, 261
Panel in Gesso, tinted with lacquers and lustre paint, designed by Walter Crane 262
Panel in Gesso, tinted with lacquer, designed by Walter Crane 263
Pictorial Decoration (Ducal Palace, Venice) 271
“Love and Death,” by G. F. Watts, R.A. 275
OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS MOVEMENT: ITS GENERAL TENDENCY AND POSSIBLE OUTCOME
It seems a strange thing that the last quarter of the nineteenth--or what I was going to call our machine-made--century should be characterized by a revival of the handicrafts; yet of the reality of that revival there can now be no manner of doubt, from whatever point we date its beginnings, or to whomsoever we may trace its initiation.
Indeed, it seems to me that the more we consider the characteristics of different epochs in the history of art, or of the world, the less we are able to isolate them, or to deal with them as phenomena by themselves, so related they seem to what has gone before them, and to what succeeds them, just as are the personalities associated with them; and I do not think this movement of ours will prove any exception to this rule.
Standing as we do on the threshold of a new century--which so often means a new epoch in history, if not in art--it may, perhaps, be allowable to look back a bit, as well as forward, in attempting a general survey of the movement. Like a traveller who has reached a certain stage of his journey, we look back over the region traversed, losing sight, in such a wide prospect, and in the mists of such a far distance, of many turns in the road, and places by the way, which at one time seemed important, and only noting here and there certain significant landmarks which declare the way by which we have come.