![Down She Came and Found a Boat. [Original watercolour illustration for Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shallott’]. by GILL, Joanna.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/28/12056---height_450.jpg?v=1740496013)
GILL, Joanna. ~ Down She Came and Found a Boat. [Original watercolour illustration for Tennyson’s ‘The Lady of Shallott’].
Original watercolour and pencil on paper. 14.6 x 11.5cm. Float mounted, framed and glazed (38 X 34cm in total). Exhibition label to the reverse of the frame for the Gillian Jason Gallery, London, along with the catalogue for the 1992 exhibition ‘The Childhood Drawings of Joanna Gill’ contained within a pouch (16pp., stapled colour card wrappers), the present painting being item no. 33g. Condition is very good with just a few spots of light toning to the yellow area at the top. The colours remain bright.
Created during her home education at Ditchling Common, Joanna Gill’s paintings reflect the styles and motifs of the unique artistic environment in which she was immersed. As Lottie Hoare, however, points out in her introductory essay in the accompanying exhibition catalogue regarding the childhood art of Joanna Gill and her early upbringing in Ditchling, it was a two-way influence, as Eric Gill was himself “inspired by his children’s drawings. He produced woodcuts with blocks taken from their own sketches and collaborated with Hilary Pepler to produce booklets of their work on St. Dominic’s Press”.
Joanna later married the printer René Hague (1905-81), who had collaborated with her father in establishing the printing press, Hague and Gill, for which Eric Gill designed a range of typefaces.