Lot 137
  • 137

Gill, Eric

Estimate
7,000 - 9,000 GBP
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  • Gill, Eric
  • A group of 24 items, all but one by Eric Gill, predominantly printed Christmas cards and wood-engravings designed for Christmas cards, comprising:
  • printed paper
i) ‘Animals all’, unnumbered, [P29]; ii) ‘Animals all’, unnumbered, inscribed ‘to Er. M. from Eric Gill, Xmas. 1914’, [P29]; iii) ‘Madonna and child: Madonna kneeling’ (early state), unnumbered, [P30]; iv) ‘Animals all’, unnumbered, [P50]; v) ‘Nativity in cave’, unnumbered, signed, [P79]; vi) ‘Christmas gifts: daylight’, unnumbered, hand coloured in orange, [P80]; vii) ‘Christmas gifts: daylight’, unnumbered, hand coloured in red, [P80]; viii) ‘Christmas gifts: daylight’, unnumbered, signed, [P80]; ix) ‘Madonna and child in vesica’, unnumbered, [P143]; x) ‘Madonna and child with arms outstretched’, unnumbered, [P215]; xi) ‘Sedes Sapientiae’ (intaglio), numbered 30/50, signed, [P297]; xii) ‘Madonna and child’, engraved by Eric Gill after a design by Joanna Gill, numbered 25/C, signed with initials, inscribed ‘Wishing Mother and Daddy a very happy Christmas / from Joan / JG’, [P343]; xiii) ‘Madonna and child’, engraved by Eric Gill after a design by Joanna Gill, numbered 63/C, signed with initials, [P343]; xiv) ‘Child in manger’, engraved by Eric Gill after a design by Petra Gill, numbered 62/C, signed with initials, [P344]; xv) ‘Tui sunt caeli et tua est terra’, printed card, including ‘Child with letter T as crucifix’, inscribed on the verso ‘best wishes from Eric G 22.12.33’, [P487]; xvi) ‘Misericordia et vertias obviaverunt sibi; lustita et pax osculatæ sunt’, printed card, including ‘The soul and the bridegroom’, [P496]; xvii) ‘Surrexit Alleluia’, unnumbered, inscribed ‘CM from EG, Easter 1930’, [P661]; xviii) ‘Virgin and child’, numbered 19/20, signed, [P827]; xiv) ‘Christmas card 1935’, unnumbered, [P896]; xx) ‘Remembrance from all at Pigotts, Christmas 1941’, printed card, including ‘Mother and Child’, inscribed ‘especially from Mary Gill / […] and New year 1942’, [P917]; xxi) ‘Madonna and child’, printed card, inscribed ‘love from E. & M.G. Pigotts’ on the verso, [P932]; xxii) ‘Madonna and child’, printed card, inscribed ‘greetings from ERIC & Mary Gill’ on the verso, [P932]; xxiii) ‘With best wishes for Christmas and the New Year, MCMXXXVIII, Engraved by Eric Gill for the Peace Pledge Union’, printed card, including ‘Virgin and child’, [P980]; xxiv) ‘Christmas 1929’, most likely designed by Petra Gill and engraved by Denis Tegetmeier, unnumbered, hand coloured, inscribed ‘Christmas 1929 / To René / With love from Denis and Petra.’, [not included in Physick]; various sizes, four mounted, framed and glazed, twenty mounted (24)