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Memoranda 



NOV F.I. WAR iiuaomAL 



Hp. Mnthen-x's Illumination on Vellum 

 tor Town Hall of Cnmpton, jr. H., on 

 View nt Robinson Hull 



An unusual war memorial, in the form 

 Jf an elaborate Illumination in watercolors 

 upon parchment, a triptych, set within a 

 uctural frame of carved wood gold- 

 nzed, is now on exhibition in Hobln- 

 aon Hall, Harvard University. It is. thfe 

 work of F. Schuyler Mathews, 'who Is con- 

 nected nominally with the university us> 

 botanical artist for the Gray Herbarium, 

 and, aside from the authorship ot botani- 

 cal and ornithological books, Mr. Mathews 

 is not so well known as an artist, who 

 was a devoted pupil of Walter Crane, the 

 English artist and designer. The war 

 memorial in question will remain in ItoD- 

 | inson Hall for about a week longer, when 

 | it will be shipped to Campton, N. H., 

 where it will be hung in the town hall. 



Campton, in the southern White Moun- 

 tain region, Is the place where Air. 

 Mathews has his summer residence and 

 studio. It was famous in former days as 

 a reaort of New York and Boston land- i 

 scape painters. It commands most beau- I 

 tlful views of the Franeonia range. it j 

 sent to the war serV 

 sons and on'! daught 

 summer the selectmen of the town askea 

 'Mr. Mathews to design a suitable memo- 

 rial in recognition of the war services 

 of its youth, and the illumination is the 

 result. The ornamentation Is exclusively 

 drawn from stained glass designs from 

 windows In Rheims and Solssons cathe- 

 drals, the glass of which is now destroyed 



"GLASS GRASSES" NOW FOR 

 _ . THE HARVARD MUSEUM 



