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GILL (ERIC) AND JOSEPH CRIBB Cribb family archive of orginal artwork (sculpture and watercolour), manuscripts, and prints by or relating to Joseph Cribb, Eric Gill and his daughters, collected by Joseph Cribb, mostly Ditchling, c.1915-20 (quantity) image 1
GILL (ERIC) AND JOSEPH CRIBB Cribb family archive of orginal artwork (sculpture and watercolour), manuscripts, and prints by or relating to Joseph Cribb, Eric Gill and his daughters, collected by Joseph Cribb, mostly Ditchling, c.1915-20 (quantity) image 2
GILL (ERIC) AND JOSEPH CRIBB Cribb family archive of orginal artwork (sculpture and watercolour), manuscripts, and prints by or relating to Joseph Cribb, Eric Gill and his daughters, collected by Joseph Cribb, mostly Ditchling, c.1915-20 (quantity) image 3
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GILL (ERIC) AND JOSEPH CRIBB
Cribb family archive of original artworks, manuscripts, and prints, c.1915-20 (quantity)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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GILL (ERIC) AND JOSEPH CRIBB

Cribb family archive of original artwork (sculpture and watercolour), manuscripts, and prints by or relating to Joseph Cribb, Eric Gill and his daughters, collected by Joseph Cribb, comprising:

CRIBB (JOSEPH) The Crucifixion, with 2 kneeling figures (?Mary and St. John/Joseph), a Dominican monk beside flowering lilies, and a Franciscan monk beside a leopard, STONEWARE RELIEF SCULPTURE PAINTED IN COLOURS, a "hand and cross" symbol etched on the reverse, 100 x 185 x 24mm., undated

CRIBB (JOSEPH) S. Gertrude, pen and watercolour of Gertrude seated reading St. Paul's Epistle to the Ephesians, SIGNED WITH INITIALS AND DATED ("H.J.C. 1930") on image, mounted, framed and glazed, 1930

GILL (ERIC) The King Enamoured of Anne, woodcut, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 320 x 195mm., SIGNED ("Eric G., 1//10") on the image, [1937]

GILL (ERIC) The Woman of Samaria, woodcut, mounted, framed and glazed, image to view 130 x 230mm., SIGNED ("Eric G., 6/10") on the image, [1931]

GILL (ERIC) Madonna and Child, wood-engraving, mounted, framed and glazed, sheet to view 108 x 68mm., SIGNED with initials ("E.G.") and worn inscription beneath image, [1922]

GILL (ERIC) Our Lady of Lourdes, woodcut, printed in black, red, green and yellow, laid down and window-mounted, image to view 315 x 240mm., [1920]

[GILL (ERIC), after] Madonna and Child, glass painted in black, with image (enlarged from print above) scratched out, framed in lead, image 225 x 165mm., [after 1922]

GILL FAMILY. "The Apple Barn Club Magazine. No. 3 September", MANUSCRIPT with written and watercolour contributions by Gill's daughters Elizabeth, Petra and Joanna, on paper, 30 pages (6 blank) of lined paper including 5 full-page pencil and watercolour drawings, other smaller ones and decorations, one index leaf, one watercolour of a lion by "Lucanus" (Elizabeth), loose in portfolio wrappers with full-page watercolour and title on upper cover, and watercolour of a bull's head on lower cover (both in an unidentified adult hand), with outer wrappers of grey paper with pen and ink pictorial title label on upper cover, approx. 265 x 240mm., September 1915

GILL FAMILY. "Farm, Field and Fireside Monthly... November [-December] 1918", 2 issues, MANUSCRIPT, with written and watercolour contributions by Gill's daughters Elizabeth, Petra and Joanna, each 12 pages of lined paper, with ink poems illustrated in pen and watercolours, stitched brown paper wrappers with decorative manuscript title and index in ink and colours, approx. 250 x 190mm., November-December 1918

together with a small unsigned woodcut print by Gill of the Madonna and Child with Gallows, and 2 framed reproduction portraits of David Pepler and David Jones by Gill (small quantity)

Footnotes

Joseph Cribb (1892-1967), "Gill's first apprentice [since 1906], was still an essential part of workshop life at Ditchling... The overflow of workshop into family relationships... is especially obvious in the story of the close, even intermarried, Gills and Cribbs... Cribb in a sense was an extension of Gill" (Fiona MacCarthy, Eric Gill, 1989).

The material in this archive, whether by Cribb, Gill or his daughters, all belongs to the period when Gill settled at Hopkins Crank, a house a few miles outside the village of Ditchling, Sussex between 1913 and 1924, where both men converted to Catholicism, and established the Guild of SS Joseph and Dominic. The religious subject matter of Cribb's sculpture of the Crucifixion and portrait of St. Gertrude, and Gill's engraving of the Madonna and Child are representative both their interests and wide range of working methods.

Like the Bronte Sisters, Gill's three daughters, at this time home educated in a "regime of self-sufficiency" (MacCarthy), produced a series of hand-made magazines, a charming combination of small poems and illustrations (churches, houses, flowers and landscapes). The first volume of The Apple Barn Magazine (April-June 1915) is held at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Los Angeles. We have been unable to trace other examples of Farm, Field, and Fireside.

The collection was loaned for exhibition to the Ditchling museum between July 2017 and July 2021.

Provenance: Herbert Joseph Cribb (1892-1967); by descent to the present owner.

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