Charles Robert Ashbee: Design for Dings Club Songbook, 1890s - on Art WW I

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Charles Robert Ashbee:
Design for Dings Club Songbook, 1890s

Framed (ref: 1181)
Pen & ink, 5 1/2 x 5 1/8 in. (14 x 13 cm.)

Tags: Charles Robert Ashbee ink design flowers illustration



Provenance: G.T.Friend.

Framed in a limed oak shadow box with lap jointed inner slip

Original designs by Ashbee, one of the most important pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement, are rare.  Relatively little is known about  The Club other than the fact that it was founded by Gore, a Bristol vicar, with whom Ashbee had a close relationship.


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