Accession number
PML 146047.1
Creator
Gill, Eric, 1882-1940.
Published
[England : s.n., 1914?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title from Physick.
Proof of wood-engraved design for the cover of a catalog of an exhibition in aid of Belgian refugees, 1914; block subsequently used for an illustration on p. 42 of H.D.C. Pepler's Nisi Dominus (Ditchling, Sussex : S. Dominic's Press, 1919); and as plate 2 of Engravings by Eric Gill (London ; Bristol : Douglas Cleverdon, 1929). Cf. Physick.
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.
Proof of wood-engraved design for the cover of a catalog of an exhibition in aid of Belgian refugees, 1914; block subsequently used for an illustration on p. 42 of H.D.C. Pepler's Nisi Dominus (Ditchling, Sussex : S. Dominic's Press, 1919); and as plate 2 of Engravings by Eric Gill (London ; Bristol : Douglas Cleverdon, 1929). Cf. Physick.
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.
Description
1 print : wood engraving ; image: 60 x 50 mm; sheet: 324 x 271 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil at lower left: p. 18 (1914); at bottom center: Slaughter of the Innocents.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a bearded man at left seizing a small child by the neck as a kneeling woman at right holds her hands to her head in despair.
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