GILL Eric

Proof of a design, which in its first state had been used on the cover of Saint Bartholomew’s Hospital Journal in 1938.

John Gray had been a young poet and friend of Oscar Wilde in 1890s London and was rumoured to be the origin of Dorian Gray.…

A gentle and tender image of the Madonna and Child.
The second state is the only one that appears in Physick.

The engraving was made for the frontispiece forThe Lost Child and Other Stories by Mulk Raj Anand and published by Messrs. J.A. Allen & Co.…

A very pleasing image and rather rare.

There was no edition of this engraving although it was used in ‘Wood Engravings’ published by St. Dominic’s Press in 1924. H
Here we have one…

In the engraving is the inscription ‘Sic enim Deus dilexit mundum’ (For God so loved the world), from St John 13:16.
Engraved by Gill for Art…

Engraving for ‘Clothes’ by Eric Gill, published by Jonathan Cape in 1931.
Rather charmingly the engraving depicts a sculptor with a strong resemblance to Gill. L.W.…

On the back of the frame is a label from The Piccadilly Gallery in 1985 stating it was sold to Barnabus McHenry that year.
A really…

One of Gill’s white on black, line wood-engravings, a classic image. Like The Skaters, it was based on a photograph in the 1923 Daily Mirror.…

Proof of a design for a carving of St. Christopher. Scarce as the block was destroyed and the image was not used elsewhere.

Christopher Skelton in The Engravings of Eric Gill, 1983 regarding the printed title page and wrapper for Gill’s 25 Nudes: “The page was originally printed…

This image was engraved for The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity, published in 1930.
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Wood engraving which was used on the title-page of The Constant Mistress, by Enid Clay, Gill’s sister, published by the Golden Cockerel Press in 1934.…