Eric Gill , wood engraver, sculptor and typographer was born in Brighton, Sussex. In 1900, whilst in London training under W.H Caroe, the architect to the Ecclesiastical Commissioner, he attended evening classes at Central School of Arts and Crafts and studied letter design under Edward Johnston. Gill began to carve in stone and make sculpture. By 1904 Gill was making a living from letter engraving and in 1910 and he began making figure sculpture. His first solo exhibition was at the Chenil Gallery, London, 1911. Gill lived in Ditchling, Sussex 1907-24 where a community of artists also thrived. Gill’s Roman Catholic views were influential upon the community and in 1917 a religious order of artists was conceived. In 1921 members of the community formed the Guild of St Joseph and St Dominic. Among the artists surrounding him at Ditchling were David Jones, Hagreen, Pepler, and Johnston. In 1924 he moved to Capel-y-ffin, near Hay-on Wye and over the next four years produced much of his best engraved work. In 1928 Gills large family moved to High Wycombe, Buckingham.
Gill is regarded as one of the greatest craftsmen of this century, a typographer and letter cutter and a wood engraver. His conversion to Catholicism influenced his sculpture and writings. Gill’s subject matter swung between the deeply religious and the highly erotic, a direct echo of his eccentric life. His prints first appeared invariably in tiny editions or as illustrations in limited edition books, such as those he illustrated for the Golden Cockerel Press under Robert Gibbings. He also wrote constantly on his favourite topics, social reform, the integration of the body and spirit, the evils of industrialisation; and the importance of the working man. These were published by the Ditchling Press and Faber. He designed his first typeface, Perpetua, for Stanley Morison who had badgered him for years on this matter. Of all the 11 typefaces that he designed, Gill Sans is his most famous
Gill described himself on his gravestone as a stone carver.
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Five wood engraved Devices.
£55.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill six wood engraved Devices.
£55.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill three wood engraved Devices.
£55.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill title page to Chaucers’ Troilus and Criseyde’
£65.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘The Sofa’ rare proof
£850.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill photogravure titled ‘St.Anthony’
£65.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper faced wood block for ‘Animals All’
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GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Nativity with Midwife, St. John standing’
£120.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Self Portrait Right Profile’
£220.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Hog and Wheatsheaf’
£140.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Eve’
£1,650.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Madonna and Child: The Shrimp’
£160.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Divine Lovers’
£170.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Mother and Child’
£160.00
GILL, Eric
Five Eric Gill wood engravings on one sheet, Christmas theme.
£250.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Crucifix’
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘The Lion’
£60.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Spoil Bank Crucifix’
£60.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Chalice and Host’
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GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Girl with Three Scallops’
£85.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill two wood engravings on one sheet ‘Christmas Gifts: Daylight’ and ‘Christmas Gifts: Dawn’
£225.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Madonna and Child’
£160.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Our Lady of Lourdes’
£200.00
GILL, Eric
Three Eric Gill copper engravings of ‘Madonna and Child’
£130.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Prior of Caldey ‘ [the Very Rev. Wilfred Upson, O.S.B.]
£65.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Earth Waiting’
£360.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Crucifix’ printed in red.
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Hottentot’
£140.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘The Carrying of the Cross’
£130.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill etching ‘Elizabeth Gill’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill etching ‘Gordian Gill’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Ruth Lowinsky’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Thomas Esmond Lowinsky’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Mrs Williams’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘The Harem’
£125.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘St.Mary Magdalen’ [with a pot of Ointment]
£180.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Crucifix Chalice and Host’
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GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Daily Herald Order of Industrial Heroism’
£145.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Girl in Bath ll’ [Portrait of Petra, the artists daughter]
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GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Girl in Bath l’ [Portrait of Petra, the artists daughter]
£400.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Autumn Midnight’
£145.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill two wood engravings on one sheet: ‘S Helena’ and ‘S Angela Merici’
£110.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Clare’ (Portrait of Mrs. H.D.C.Pepler)
£90.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Mrs Beatrice Warde’
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Girl with Deer’
£65.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘New England Woods’
£95.00
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Eric Gill Wood engraving ‘Christ and the Money-Changers’
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GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Wood engraving ‘Christ and the Money-Changers’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill three wood engravings on one sheet: ‘Epiphany’, ‘Palm Sunday’ and ‘Adam and Eve’
£130.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Wood engraving ‘Dress.1920’
£90.00
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Eric Gill Wood engraving ‘Dumb-Driven Cattle’
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Eric Gill Wood engraving ‘The Purchaser’
£115.00
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Eric Gill Wood engraving ‘Actor on Stage’
£130.00
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Fifteen Eric Gill wood engravings on one sheet
£125.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Naked Girl lying on Grass’
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Mother and Child’
£145.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Stay Me with Apples’
£165.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘On my Bed by Night’
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘My Love among the Lilies’
£95.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Ibi Dabo Tibi’
£385.00
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Eric Gill copper engraving ‘David’
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Good Shepherd’
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘The Soul and the Bridegroom’
£125.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘The Good Shepherd’
£85.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Clothes: For Dignity and Adornment’
£125.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Adam and Eve in heaven; or the Public-House in Paradise’
£160.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Our Lord on Tree’
£95.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill two wood engravings ‘Lovers’
£95.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill two wood engravings ‘Chaucer Writing’ and ‘Chaucer and Cupid’
£145.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill First state rare proof wood engraving ‘Venus’
£650.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Crucifix, Robed’ rare proof
£575.00
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Eric Gill ‘The Lovers’ rare proof wood engraving
£1,200.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Flight into Egypt’
£275.00
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Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Child and Nurse’.
£225.00
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Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Adam and Eve’.
£245.00
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Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Child in Bed’
£225.00
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Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Spray of Leaves’.
£175.00
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Eric Gill signed and numbered wood engraving ‘The Convert’
£550.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Madonna and Child, with Children (2nd state).’ signed and numbered.
£550.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered by hand copper engraving ‘With Ritual Chant’,
£950.00
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Eric Gill signed by hand, wood engraving Teresa and Winifred.
£450.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered wood engraving ‘Nature and Nakedness’
£850.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered by hand, etching ‘God Sending’
£950.00
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Eric Gill signed and numbered by hand ‘Trousers and Spats’
£450.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood cut signed and numbered ‘Clothes As Workshops’
£400.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood cut signed and numbered by hand ‘Lovers on a Bank’
£850.00
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Eric Gill wood engraving signed and numbered ‘St.Mark’
£525.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered wood engraving ‘The Constant Mistress’
£400.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered wood engraving ‘Death and the Lady’
£750.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill rare proof ‘The Shepherds’
£375.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered wood engraving ‘Earth Receiving’
£1,500.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed and numbered wood engraving ‘Venus’
£950.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Torso of a Woman’
£950.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘On the Tiles’ RARE first state
£850.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Madonna and Child’ Signed
£485.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Cock and Spear’ Signed and Numbered from edition of 10.
£425.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Collection of 16 wood engravings housed in a book, presented by Eric Gill to his wife Mary Ethel Moore Gill circa 1926-1929 Signed and numbered.
£8,750.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Fuge dilecti ni’
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Eric Gill signed wood engraving ‘Naked Girl lying on Grass’
£950.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving’Clothes as Houses’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill rare proof ‘Madonna and Child with Arms Outstretched’
£375.00
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‘Man and Girl, in four Groups, on way to Church’ by Eric Gill
£145.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Eve in the Garden’ ex-libris plate for Jacob Weiss
£600.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Chinese Maidservant’ by Eric Gill
£1,200.00
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‘Madonna and Child’ Signed by Eric Gill
£550.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood cut rare proof ‘Lovers’
£550.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill copper engraving ‘Skaters’
£350.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving titled ‘The Tennis Player’
£325.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Tyranny of Tailors’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Christ Washing Peter’s Feet’ and ‘Christ, Peter and Malchus’
£145.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Pharisee and the Publican’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
‘Clothes As Workshops’ by Eric Gill
£85.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Tennis Player’ by Eric Gill
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‘St. Christopher’ by Eric Gill
£385.00
GILL, Eric
‘Sculpture ll’ by Eric Gill
£350.00
GILL, Eric
‘Rachel Rothenstein’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Xenia Noelle Lowinsky’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Xenia Noelle Lowinsky’ printed on fine japon.
£145.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Madonna and Child in Vesica’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Toilet’
£80.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Toilet’ Rare Proof
£300.00
GILL, Eric
‘Hamlet and the Ghost’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Second Nun’s Tale’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Hamlet’ title page.
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill three wood engravings on one sheet ‘Sculpture 1; Sculpture ll; Woman’s Head’
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‘Vadam ad Montem’ by Eric Gill
£150.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Beheading of John the Baptist’ by Eric Gill
SOLD
GILL, Eric
‘The Merchant’s Tale’ Wood engraving by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
‘Naked Pygmy’ and ‘Naked Boy’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
‘Woman Growing Out of a Tree’ by Eric Gill
£75.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Summoner’s Tale’ by Eric Gill
£130.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Friars Tale’ by Eric Gill
£145.00
GILL, Eric
‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ by Eric Gill
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GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale: Prologue’
£145.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Pardoner’s Tale’ Wood engraving by Eric Gill
£125.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Three Men Hanged’ and “Death at Foot of Tree’
£60.00
GILL, Eric
‘Tale of Sir Topas’ and ‘Tale of Melibeus’ by Eric Gill
£95.00
GILL, Eric
‘Book plate for Desmond Flower’ by Eric Gill
£38.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Nun’s Priest Tale’ Wood engraving by Eric Gill
£90.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Monk’s Tale’ by Eric Gill
£70.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘The Prioress’s Tale’
£95.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill woodengraving’The Shipman’s Tale’
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GILL, Eric
‘The Reeve’s Tale’ by Eric Gill
£135.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘The Knight’s Tale’
£145.00
GILL, Eric
‘The Miller’s Tale’ by Eric Gill
£145.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Wood Engravings titled ‘Naked Man Dead’ and ‘Woman Weeping for Dead Man’
£60.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engravings titled ‘Man Waving Eight-Leaved Spray’ and ‘Man Waving Ten-Leaved Spray’
£60.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engravings titled ‘Spray of Seven Leaves’ and ‘Woman Climbing Phallus’
£90.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Lion’ Book-plate for Philip Hofer
£55.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving titled ‘Child With Letter T as Crucifix’
£45.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Man Shooting Arrow, Bird with Parson’s Hat’
£85.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Wood Cuts titled ‘Girl in Skirt Facing Right’ and ‘Girl in Skirt, Full Face’
£80.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill wood engravings titled ‘Faun Piping’ and ‘Naked Girl with Back Turned and Spray’
£125.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill original prints titled ‘Venus Instructrix Artis Amoris’ and ‘Lovers in Tree’
£75.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Wood Engravings ‘Man Throwing Spear’ and ‘Two Men With Spears’
£70.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill Wood Engravings titled ‘Naked Girl Holding Branch’ and ‘Cupid, Bow on Tree’
£70.00
GILL, Eric
Eric Gill ‘Naked Youth’ and ‘Naked Girl Looking Back’
£80.00
