Lettering exercise: "It is suggested, as the materials used are rather expensive,/that students should, from the first, try to make something ..." [graphic], HRC 1228. [1897-1940].

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Lettering exercise: "It is suggested, as the materials used are rather expensive,/that students should, from the first, try to make something ..." [graphic], HRC 1228. [1897-1940].

Hand lettering, twenty-line essay in formal Roman.

1 drawing : black ink on paper ; sheet 17 3/8 x 13 1/8" (44.1 x 33.3 cm.).

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Gill, Eric, 1882-1940

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English sculptor and engraver. Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, best known as Eric Gill, was born in Brighton, Sussex on February 22, 1882 to minister Arthur Tidman Gill and light-opera singer (Cicely) Rose King. They moved to Chichester in 1897, where Gill studied at the Chichester Technical and Art School (1897-1900). In 1900, Gill moved to London to study architecture under William Douglas Caröe, taking classes in practical masonry at Westminster Institute and in lettering and illumination at the Ce...