GILBERT
(Sir John, 1817-1897, Historical Painter, Illustrator and Engraver, R. A.)
Autograph Letter Signed to “My dear Bicknell”
saying that it “is a fearfully long time since I last received a letter from you. I hope you are well... We have all passed through a severe and most protracted winter, I have felt it, its extreme cold, darkness and universal dullness has oppressed me. The whole of the month of Jany I kept at home - that is - I did not go to town... had to struggle with all the uncomfortableness of that condition of mind. Am now truly thankful that all that is over, and rejoice to hear the blackbirds singing from morn to eve, see something like a sky again, and feel all over a different creature. News of any kind I have not to send. What has occurred at the Academy I know little of for I have not been able to attend any of the meetings. I get a little secondhand information worth little. The work I have done while the days were cold and dark I now find had better have been left undone, for it must must be gone over again. Not that it signifies much for nobody buys pictures nowadays...” with a postscript that “The Frazers, having removed to a part of Blackheath somewhat remote from this, I see very little of, and that being the case I hear nothing of you...”, 4 sides 8vo., no place, 9th February
Item Date:
1879
Stock No:
43204
£125
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GILBERT
(Sir Alfred, 1854-1934, Sculptor of ‘Eros’ in Piccadilly Circus etc)
Long Letter Signed to Lord Percy,
thanking him for his “letter and for the kind words you utter about the Times article on my work at Windsor. I have for some time past doubted my chances of success as regards the appointment at South Kensington, but now with such an authoritative... as the one you give me I am quite prepared to renounce all hope, and all further striving. Why I wanted the post was, that I might, during my leisure, devote myself to the production of original work untrammelled by Commissions, and the dictates of others. The price may have been high to pay for such a desire... the official nature of the position which might be thought ill suited to my own, but I had hoped I might have exercised some good in the schools, and amongst the Art Masters who are under the official regime. Again, it was that ‘irksome uncertainly’ to which you allude, the enlarging parasite of my life - which led me to aspire to, and desire official employment... it has it’s sweet certainty. I am accustomed to disappointments, though I am credited with a rich account of Fortune’s smiles. I have only one hope, and that is, that I have not overdrawn my account in asking friends such as you are to ‘back’ my future demand, to no purpose...”, 4 sides oblong 4to., 18 Maida Vale, W., 8th August
Item Date:
1898
Stock No:
43195
£175
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GILL
(Eric, 1882-1940, Sculptor, Engraver, Writer & Typographer)
Fine Signature “Eric G.”
on card, 4” x 2½”, no place, dated in another hand, 8th August
Item Date:
1930
Stock No:
43200
£45
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GILL
(Eric, 1882-1940, Sculptor, Engraver, Writer & Typographer)
Fine Autograph Letter Signed to Everard MEYNELL
(1882-1926, Sculptor, son of Wilfred and Alice and brother of Sir Francis) thanking him for his “cheque for £25 on account duly received. When you send the balance - a very small amount by the way - please return the mason’s account for fixing, and I will pay it....”. 1 side 4to., with original autograph envelope, Ditchling Sussex headed paper, 10th June
Item Date:
1911
Stock No:
42093
£375
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[GILL
(Eric, 1882-1940, Sculptor, Engraver, Writer & Typographer)]
Fine Original Proof Wood Engraving, not signed
showing a man seated in front of a fire with a clock on the mantelpiece, published on page 27 of ‘God and the Dragon’, Rhymes by H.D.C. Pepler, No. 15 of the publications of the St. Dominic’s Press, 2¾” x 1¾” on sheet 4½” x 4½”, Ditchling, Sussex,
Item Date:
1917
Stock No:
42390
£125
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