Lot 103
£1,638
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 28 September 2022 from 10:00 BST
1) 25 photographs of Eric Gill's statues & inscriptional work, all inscribed on the backs in Eric Gill's hand;
including such works as "Mankind" (in the Tate Gallery); carvings in Portland stone for the West Dean Lychgate; stone decoration for Mirfield Refectory; "B.B.C. Details of Ariel, unfinished"; memorial stone for Sir Charles Hamilton at Broadway, Glos.; "Eve". Bath Stone 2 feet high approx. EG Apr. 1930"; 'St. Dominic Caen stone carved by Eric Gill, the Blackfriars Church, Oxford 1931 (about 18 inches high)...'; St. Francis (for Coplestone gravestone), Hoptonwood stone, about 3 feet high, 1935, in cemetery at Chester...'; 'Model for South Wind ca. 1929. Bath stone, about 2 feet long' (St. James's Park station); torso of a woman, a work completed at Ditchling, ca. 1920; 'Torso, Portland Stone, about 18 inches high'; The Glastonbury Madonna, in Portland Stone, completed in 1928; 'Headstone in Hopton-Wood Stone (Pitman's system), E.G. del. David R. Sc. 1936'; "Garden Statue", an early work completed 1911/12, later in Roger Fry's collection; elaborate bas-relief commissioned by the L.M.S. railway for their hotel at Morecombe, Lancs., illustrating the story of Nausica and Ulysses (1933), afterwards used on LMS menu cards; the Crucifix for G.K. Chesterton's grave in Beaconsfield Cemetery, 1937. 'S. Simeon Stylites (Garden Figure)'; Coat-of-arms for Jesus College, Cambridge, "Weldon Stone", about 7 ft. 6 inches high. 1930-31". The earliest photograph is one dated 1908 which shows three memorial stones, captioned 'Three memorials. A. Portland Stone - letters incised & printed black. B. Statuary Marble & Alabaster - Letters incised & painted "Brun rouge". C. York stone - Letters in relief.' A in the headstone for John Kipling, commissioned by the Earl of Lytton, 119 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK... B is the oval tablet for Harriet Templer, 112 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK. C is the headstone with relief inscription for Lily Duff, 79 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK... 1905
2) 46 photographs of Eric Gill's statues & inscriptional work, all with inscriptions on the backs by members of the Gill family: Mary Gill, Evan Gill (E.G.'s brother), Petra Tegetmeier & Joan Hague (his daughters); and by Sir Wm. Rothenstein. There are 46 with their captions or other MS inscriptions. They include such works as "the money changers", the War Memorial of Portland Stone (6 ft x 16 ft.) on the wall of the Library at Leeds University, 1922-23, 418 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK...; pierced carvings in door at the Radcliffe Library, Oxford, 1934; unfinished 'Headstone, Portland Stone, about 6' high'; 'The Divine Lovers'; funeral urn, in Willesden Cemetery, in memory of Walter Mortimer Ronalds, 1925; 'The golden calf'; Madonna & Child; tablet of polished Hopton-Wood stone, St. James, Piccadilly, in memory of Mary Beatrice Johnson, 1930; Memorial of Portland stone at Chirk, near Wrexham, 1920; 'A contortionist'; 'St. John the Baptist'; headstone in memory of Walter Consitt Boulter, 1913; Crucifix on the altar of Hart House Chapel, Toronto; Mother & Child (1913); portrait panel of Hopton-Wood stone, in memory of Ottoline Morrell, 727 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK...; headstone of Delabole slate in memory of Percy Walter White; 'Joan of Arc'; 'A dancer'; '4th Station. St Cuthbert's Church, Bradford' (this has a number of inscriptions in William Rothenstein's hand); 'Study for Leeds War Memorial'; 'Leeds Memorial. The money changers, 1st stage'; 'Mater Amabilis'; 'Mankind'.
3) 9 photographs of statues & carvings by Gill's assistants, six inscribed on the back in Eric Gill's hand. They are by Antony Foster, Charles Blakman, H.J. Cribb and Laurie Cribb. And the headstone for Eric Gill in the communal cemetery, Speen, Bucks, which was designed by E.G. himself but cut by his assistant Laurie Cribb. This is 762 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK...
4) 127 photographs without captions or inscriptions. They include such works as the headstone for Guinevere Shove; 'Ecstasy'; gravestone in Boulogne in memory of Herbert Trench, 438 in THE INSCRIPTONAL WORK...; tablet in memory of the McCosh family; Hopton-Wood stone tablet at Sevenoaks, Kent; coloured alabaster Mother & Child; Gravestone of York stone, 639B in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK... Plate VI); 'South Wind'; portrait panel of Lord Rutherford; statue of Mother & Child, commissioned by Rupert Brooke; Delabole slate tablet, 718 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK; Grave-board at Suhr bei Aarau, Switzerland, 1933; The splits, 1 & 2; Portland headstone REMEMBER PHILOMEL; wall tablet in Brighton, for site of Russell House; stone tablet to mark the Coronation of King George V; Headstone at Drumoak, Aberdeen; wall tablet in the Maharani Hospital, Jagdalpur; sundial; headstone in Chester Cemetery for members of the Coplestone family; tablet of Roman stone in the Peek Frean pavilion, 1939; incised lettering on a pilaster of the British Museum, 394 in THE INSCRIPTIONAL WORK...
5) Envelope of 15 photographs of Eric Gill's statues & carvings, mostly inscribed on verso by him or Mary Gill
Provenance: Property of an English collector.