GILL, Eric

Eric Gill wood engraving ‘Good Shepherd’

Description

Eric Gill wood engraving printed from the original block for ‘Engravings by Eric Gill’.  Published by Douglas Cleverdon, printed by The Fanfare Press, 1929. One of 400 copies printed on paper specially manufactured for this edition with the number ‘91’ in top right corner as issued. There is a small mark, a, paper impurity, in the paper, in the margin,else very good.  Not mounted / matted.

Image size 80 x 40mm  (3.25 x 1.5 inches)

Sheet size 310 x 250mm  (12 x 9.75 inches)

Item details

Reference Physick 397; Cleverdon  115, 91: Proof, after a carving in relief Highbury Chapel Bristol: engraved for and published, in an edition of 50 impressions, by Douglas Cleverdon, Bristol 1927. 1926.  The block was subsequently used for illustration as plate 91 of ‘Engravings by Eric Gill’, published by Douglas Cleverdon, printed by The Fanfare Press, 1929.Lettered Et Alias Oves Habeo