Kelmscott Press
1893
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Wednesday, September 1, 2010
ITV1 Presents New Factual Strand
LONDON: ITV1 is set to launch a new documentary strand, Perspectives, which will encompass factual films from a variety of filmmakers and presenters, who offer their take on subjects ranging from life in modern Britain to the arts.
Perspective kicks off in 2011 with a run of five documentaries. These include Mugged (working title), which looks at street crime in Britain. The Fisherman's Friends (working title) tells the story of a group of Cornish fishermen and childhood friends who became a pop sensation. Robson Green and the Pitmen Painters (working title) watches as Green, himself a son of a Northumberland miner, returns to his roots to tell the true story of a band of miners known as the Ashington Group. Children of Britain (working title), watches as children express their viewpoint of modern Britain and tell their own stories. Andrew Lloyd Webber and the Pre-Raphaelites (working title) is an ITV Studios production that follows Webber as he showcases his passion for the Pre-Raphaelites art.
Perspectives was commissioned by Jo Clinton-Davis, ITV's controller of popular factual, with Alison Sharman, ITV's director of factual and daytime, and Peter Fincham, ITV's director of television.
Fincham said: “Perspectives will bring to ITV1’s schedule documentaries defined by distinctive and unique views, vantage points and voices, whether they be those of film-makers or people from a range of fields and backgrounds, addressing their subjects in a way that will enrich and refresh our own way of looking at the world around us. Each of the five films we have commissioned promises in its individual way to do just that.”
News from Nowhere
published by Reeves & Turner and printed by William Morris at the
Kelmscott Press 1893
illustration by Charles March Gere
with the full woodcut border by Morris
The Aeneid of Virgil
William Morris, Edward Burne-Jones and Charles Fairfax Murray
with later work by Graily Hewitt and Louise Powell
binding by J & J Leighton
book 1874-75 and 1904 - c. 1910
Andrew Lloyd Webber collection
William Arthur Smith Benson - Wall light (one of a pair)
Copper, brass and opalescent glass
William Arthur Smith Benson (1854-1924) became articled to the architect Basil Champneys in 1878 during his last year at Oxford and remained with him until 1880. During this time he shared lodgings with with the painter and etcher, Heywood Sumner, who introduced him to Burne-Jones who in turn introduced him to William Morris. Benson became a close associate of Morris who encouraged him to establish a small workshop for the production of turned metalwork which he did in 1880. However, unlike Morris, Benson fully accepted the implications of mechanical production and designed exclusively for it. He prospered by manufacturing an extensive range of oil and electric light fittings and household utensils in copper, brass and electroplate. Shortly after starting his business, he expanded by building a factory in Hammersmith and in 1887, he opened a shop in Bond Street with the facade designed by himself.
At the outbreak of the First World War, the factory was made over to the production of aircraft parts for the newly formed Royal Flying Corps. At the cessation of hostilities in 1918, Benson never really recovered interest in his original business and on his retirement in 1920, the firm went into voluntary liquidation.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O238412/wall-light-one/
Ford Madox Brown - Head of a Page Boy
Oil on canvas
30.6 x 35.5 cm
(12.05" x 13.98")
Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery (Birmingham, United Kingdom)
Edward Burne-Jones - Ladies and Animals Sideboard
1860 (painted)
Pine, painted in oil paint, with gold and silver leaf
During the week before his wedding in June 1860, the artist Edward Burne-Jones painted a plain sideboard that he had in his possession, and later used it in his dining room. He described the subject of his painting as 'Ladies and animals...in various relations to each other'. The three panels on the front show ladies feeding pigs, parrot and fishes.
Burne-Jones had begun painting furniture a few years earlier when he shared a studio in Red Lion Square, London, with the designer William Morris. They were influenced by medieval furniture which was plain and strongly-built, but with a surface decoration of painting.
http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O66254/sideboard-ladies-and-animals-sideboard/
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