GILL, Eric

Eric Gill wood engravings titled ‘Faun Piping’ and ‘Naked Girl with Back Turned and Spray’

Description

Two Eric Gill wood engravings on one sheet printed from the original blocks by Gill and Hague. Unsigned as published in1934 and printed on machine made paper.  The sheet has some soft handling marks,otherwise in very good condition.

Image size 200 x 100mm  (7.5 x 4 inches)
Sheet size 310 x 250 mm  (12 x 9 inches)

Item details

Two wood engravings on one sheet.

‘Faun Piping.’
(Physick 458, Cleverdon 176, 15)
Decorative border on pages 28,50,112, Vol:1;p.138,Vol.ll; pages 94,184, Vol.lll of Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’. No.63 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press.

AND

‘Naked Girl with Back Turned and Spray.’
(Physick 459, Cleverdon 177, 15)
2nd. State. Decorative border on pages 29,51,113, Vol:1;p.139,Vol.ll; pages 95, Vol.lll of Chaucer’s ‘The Canterbury Tales’. No.63 of the publications of the Golden Cockerel Press.

The woodcuts were subsequently printed from the original woodblock for the Douglas Cleverdon edition ‘Engravings 1928-1933 by Eric Gill’, printed by Gill and Hague, published by Faber & Faber Ltd in 1934. This edition is rare and was printed in a small edition size.