Stay me with apples [print].
Accession number:
PML 146047.18
Published:
[England : s.n., 1925?]
Description:
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 66 x 60 mm; sheet: 333 x 233 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Title from Physick.
Proof of an engraving by Eric Gill; published as an illustration to the prospectus of The Song of Songs (London: Golden Cockerel Press, 1925); and as plate 67 of Engravings by Eric Gill (London ; Bristol : Douglas Cleverdon, 1929). Cf. Physick for further information.
One of a collection of 29 proofs of wood engravings and intaglio engravings by Eric Gill, printed on 28 sheets of fine paper (see PML 146047); the individual prints comprising the collection each cataloged separately.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Inscribed in pencil at lower left: p. 305 (1925); at bottom center: Stay me with apples.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Print shows a couple endowed with halos and in the act of making love.
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