Lettering exercise: "Iram indeed is gone/with all its rose...." [graphic], HRC 1227. [1897-1940].

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Lettering exercise: "Iram indeed is gone/with all its rose...." [graphic], HRC 1227. [1897-1940].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86168039

Hand lettering, ten lines from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam; written in a modernized half uncial. Hand-lettered alphabet of capital letters and the words "Cupid & Psyche," verso.

1 drawing : black ink on paper ; sheet 8 9/16 x 7 13/16" (21.7 x 19.8 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...