£2,772
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs ft. the Library of the Late William St Clair Pt II | 712
Auction: 28 September 2022 at 11:00 BST
mixed media, all mounted, framed and glazed, and comprising:
1. Nativity with Midwife, St Joseph Seated, [1910], original Christmas card design for Roger Fry, mount aperture 9 x 6cm, in triple aperture mount with the printed wood-engraving [Skelton P10] and a pencil inscription by Gill 'To Ethel from Eric on return from Brussels Exhib[ition]', backboard with printed label reading 'Original drawing by Eric Gill from the Gill family collection', acquisition note 'G. Sims 1985' and other annotations;
2. [Blessed Virgin Mary in vesica], mount aperture 10 x 5cm, text along border of vesica reading 'Beata viscera Mariae Virg[ini]s Q[uae] portaver[un]t aeterni Patris Filium' [not found in Skelton], printed label on backboard ('Original drawing by Eric Gill ...');
3. Christmas Gifts, [1916], in triple aperture mount with two related wood-engravings, Christmas Gifts: Dawn [Skelton P81] and Christmas Gifts: Daylight [Skelton P80], these identified in label on verso respectively as a 'proof engraving' and 'printed on card', framed and glazed, printed label on backboard ('Original drawing by Eric Gill ...')
Provenance: Property of an English collector.