Eric Gill
On the Tiles [P 191]
About this artwork
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title:On the Tiles [P 191]
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accession number:GMA 361
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materials:Wood engraving on paper
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date created:1921
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measurements:8.30 x 7.00 cm (paper 13.00 x 11.20 cm)
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credit line:Bequeathed by Sir David Young Cameron 1945
Eric Gill
Eric Gill
Gill was born in Brighton where his father was a clergyman. The family later moved to Chichester, where Gill enrolled at art school at the age of fifteen. As the son of a clergyman, he had free access to Chichester's great medieval cathedral, where his passion for calligraphy and masonry…