| + + | Pub. Opin. 39: 476. O. 7, ‘05. 490w. |
Wood, T. Martin. Drawings of Sir E. Burne-Jones. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
An importation of the Newnes set of drawings with an introductory essay by Mr. Wood. There are forty-seven illustrations, mostly reproductions of studies for “The Aenid,” “The masque of Cupid,” designs for windows, two or three characters from Tennyson, “The nativity,” and “The entombment,” “The dream,” “The car of love,” “The sirens,” children, hands, a wing, etc. The frontispiece presents a study in red chalk. There are several other pictures in tints, mounted on harmonizing paper. The others are in half-tone. The cover design is printed in three colors from a drawing by Granville Fell.
“Scholarly essay. Carefully selected and well reproduced, though in a few cases losing something of their charm through over-reduction, the drawings here collected include typical examples of a great variety.”
| + + | Int. Studio. 25: 180. Ap. ‘05. 260w. | |
| Int. Studio. 25: sup. 63. My. ‘05. 190w. |
“An altogether satisfactory publication not only for the reason that great pains have been taken to present the drawings through various processes in a striking and intelligent manner, but also because we have these reproductions preceded by an excellent essay by T. Martin Wood, who writes with utter frankness concerning the artist’s draughtsmanship, its development and the feats it achieved.”
| + + | N. Y. Times. 10: 178. Mr. 25, ‘05. 260w. |
[*] Wood, T. Martin. Drawings of Rossetti. [*]$2.50. Scribner.
“This year’s addition to the ‘Modern master draughtsmen’ series ... is an ideal study, both in text and illustration, of a distinctive phase of a great artist’s work.... There is an interesting discussion of the proper critical attitude from which to approach Rossetti’s work, and the fifty drawings reproduced in the present volume are treated as illustrative material for various theses, thus receiving considerable detailed attention.... Many are printed in tint and mounted upon rough paper of a harmonizing shade. They represent all stages of work, from the rough sketch to the elaborate highly-finished drawing that was so characteristic of Rossetti’s genius.”—Dial.
[*] “The introductory comment ... is a discriminating and illuminating piece of criticism.”