Print

After a drawing by Norval Gray whose initials are engraved in the block.
Extremely scarce thus - no edition is recorded by Physick.

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.

The prospectus for the Golden Cockerel Press’s Laus Veneris for which John Buckland Wright provided 12 sensual wood engravings. The energetic passion of Swinburne’s Laus…

The artist has developed his Alphabet series of cut outs and sculptures into these tactile moveable ‘Bauhaus’ letters on a vibrant teal blue base.

The handwritten note for 1928 states “I go to America on Sat 22nd for 2 or 3 months...” - the second is inscribed “to you…

With the original label from the Redfern Gallery dated Dec. 27 1929 and naming the purchaser as Dr R. Robison.