Catalogue of the permanent collection of pictures and other works of art
This is a 1903 museum catalogue from the Mappin Art Gallery in Sheffield, published by its committee to list the permanent collection of paintings and other artworks. The four pictures are halftone reproductions of genre scenes: a tall hatted figure in a dim stone passage with servants, a rowdy crowd with a drum, a tavern-like interior where men gather at a table, and a dark-coated man lifting a basket-carrying woman. Their strong contrast and loose, painterly shadows offer a designer useful models for dramatic lighting and crowd grouping.
