Eric Gill (1882-1940)
Four original drawings
£6,930
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
all mounted, framed and glazed, and with printed label 'Original drawing by Eric Gill, from the Gill family collection' to backboard, and comprising:
1. 'S. Sebastian in Henry VII chapel' [Westminster Abbey], pencil, with Gill's autograph caption, mount aperture 10 x 7.3cm;
2. Historiated initial 'L' with text 'CAPUT PRIMUM. LIBER GENERATIONIS JESU CHRISTI FILII DAVID, FILII ABRAHAM', red and black ink, 9.6 x 5.4cm;
3. Female nude, in pencil, evidently preparatory, 8.3 x 4.4cm;
4. Section of a female body partly covered with acanthus leaves, ink, very faded, 9 x 6cm;
and a wood-engraving, Nativity with Midwife, St Joseph Standing [Skelton P14], annotated on backboard 'Rare proof for the Gills' Christmas card, 1913', none of the items examined out of frames.
Together with a copy of St Dominic's Press, Poor Man's Pence [by] Faith Ashford, Ditchling: printed by Douglas Pepler, 1917, 16mo, variant binding of original linen-backed boards, [6] 84 [2] pp., wood-engraved title-device by Eric Gill, 5 wood-engraved devices in text (of which 3 attributed to Gill), inscribed by Pepler 'The Feast of S. Elizabeth of Hungary A D 1922 to another Eliza, from the printer, HDCP' in red ink on the initial blank, with Eric Gill's bookplate to the front pastedown [Evan Gill 362]
Footnote
Provenance: Property of an English collector.