Genre: wood blocks (printing blocks) - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

An Enclosed Garden

Description:: Woodblock of garden image for tailpiece of "Song of Songs" (Cranach Press, 1931).
Date:: 1930?
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Angela and Betty Manners bookplate (wood block)

Description:: Proof of a bookplate designed for the Hon. Angela Margaret and the Hon. Betty Constance Manners. Text reads, "From the Library of The Twinnery Clovelly. Two cherubs flank the text with a peacock in between.
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Art and Prudence

Description:: Illustration for p. 2 of Clothes (J. Cape, 1931). Block is in two parts.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Ascension

Description:: Woodblock for illustration of, p. 31, Vol II, No. 2of The Game (St. Dominic’s Press, Ditchling, Sussex). Cleverdon D-113; E.R.G.263; E.R.G.17. 1/2" crack on right side
Date:: 1918
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

At the round earth's imagin'd corners...

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p 10 of The Holy Sonnets of John Donne (ERG298). No pull. Gill Notebook III (1931 +).
Date:: 1938
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

A with Chalice

Description:: Woodblock of a letter A with a chalice, from p. 68 Four Gospels (1931).
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Bird with spray in his beak

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales II: 26, 68, 178; III: 33, 111, 154, 191; IV: 46, 72. Shows a bird with a spray of leaves in its beak.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Block for Christmas card from Eric and Mary Ethel Gill

Description:: Woodblock for Christmas card from Eric and Mary Gill, says: "Memento salutis Auctor Quod nostra quon dam corpis ex illibata virgine nascendoforma in sepseries" Gill Notebook III.
Date:: 1939
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Canterbury Tales woodblock

Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Chalice & Dove

Description:: Woodblock for ordination card for the Reverend Kenelin Foster. O.P., 14 July 1940. States, “Per Ipsum + et so + et in ipso” Physick 993, Gill 679, Notebook III
Date:: 1940
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Christmas card

Description:: Woodblock made for Eric & Mary Gill’s Christmas card in 1935. Lettering says: “Novissime Diebus Locutus… Last of all in these days he has spoken to us by his son…”
Date:: 1935
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Clothes as Houses

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p. 26 of “Clothes.” Note with block gives the caption as “Clothes as houses.” Faber plate 66.
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Clothes for special parts

Description:: Woodblock illustration for “Clothes” (#5). Note with block gives the caption as “Clothes for special parts.” EG 418.
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Crucible & Smoke

Description:: Woodblock illustration for a tailpiece in Canterbury Tales, IV: 107.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

D, B, P & S

Description:: Woodblock with 5 examples each of the letters D, B, P & S. Used in Gill’s Essay on Typography, 1931 (fig.18, p. 55). Gibbings #21, #432c.
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Death and the Lady

Description:: Woodblock for Enid Clay, Poems, 1925. See signed proof, #14 in V.I [1924-6] of EG Notebooks.
Date:: 1925
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Devil's Tails

Description:: Triangular tail piece from p. 107 of Devil’s Devices (Gill 259). Physick 43.
Date:: 1915
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Dumb-driven cattle

Description:: Woodblock illustration used as title page of Douglas Pepler’s “Devil’s Devices,” 1916 (Gill, p. 259). Also used in Nisi Demoinus (Gill, p. 372) on p. 40. Wood Engraved on box-wood, end grain, surface print. Cleverdon (1929), plate 5. No pull.
Date:: 1915
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Description:: This collection consists of original artwork, printing blocks, photographs and other visual material produced by or related to artist and designer Eric Gill. Items include prints, printing blocks, drawings, sketchbooks, photographs, architectural plans, ephemera, and artists' proofs, as well as broadsides, posters and printed reproductions.
Date:: 1887-2003

EXP

Description:: Woodblock with the letters "EXP"
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Flames

Description:: Woodblock depicting flames, printed in red as upper part of tree for back of dust jacket of 1st edition of Typography. Has pull.
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

From Eric and Mary Gill

Description:: Woodblock created for the Gill’s Christmas card in 1932. States: “From Eric and Mary Gill Christmas 1932.” Physick 849, #539
Date:: 1932
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Fuge, dilecli mi

Description:: Woodblock from Song of Songs (Cranach Press, 1931), p. 31. Also see Faber illustration #60.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Girl with Mirror

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p 30 of Quia Amore Langues, 1937 (Gill 296). Gill Notebook III
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Hamlet

Description:: Woodblock for Hamlet illustrations. Shows letters I and S.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

In Domum Matris meae

Description:: Woodblock illustration “In Domum Matris meae,” from p. 29 of Song of Songs (Cranach Press). Faber plate 63.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Inter ubera mea

Description:: Woodblock from p. 7 of Canticum Cantecorum (Cranach Press, 1931). [EG284] Gill Notebook v. II, Faber 365. No pull.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Invenerunt me custodes

Description:: Woodblock illustration from p. 21 of Canticum canticorum (Song of Songs, Cranach Press, 1931). Gill 284, Physick 665, Gill Notebook II.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

‘I’, with Crosses

Description:: A woodblock depicting a letter I with crosses on either side, made for the “Four Gospels” (p. 253).
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

"Like a young fawn"

Description:: Woodblock for intaglio, depicting a fawn running in a landscape. EG Notebook v.I.
Date:: 1925
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Man Looking up

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales. Shows a man looking up from the base of a stem with leaves.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Man standing behind leaves

Description:: Woodblock illustration showing a man standing behind some leaves at the base of the plant stem.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Man Swimming

Description:: Illustration of a man swimming for p. 7 of Chapter 1 of “The Green Ship” by Patrick Miller, Golden Cockerel Press. Gill #294. Gill Notebook III. Gill p 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Map of Europe

Description:: Map of Europe with lines radiating from Le Lavandou, France. Illustration for front page of a prospectus (Gill 351) of the European Mediterranean Academy, Cavaliere, Cap Nigre, Le Lavandou (Var), Printed by Hague & Gill.
Date:: 1933
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Midnight Oil

Description:: Woodblock for Architects Journal (1926) Competitions page. Physick 356, Gill Notebook II.
Date:: 1926
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Morley Kennerley

Description:: Woodblock with the name “Morley Kennedy” carved into it. EG 611, Notebook III.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Mr. Brown

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p 118 (Ch. 5) of The Green Ship by P. Miller (Golden Cockerel Press, 1936). Gill 294. Gill Notebook III. Gill p 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Mr. Scribner

Description:: Illustration of Mr. Scribner for p. 42, Chapter 3 of “The Green Ship” by Patrick Miller, Golden Cockerel Press. Gill 294. Gill Notebook III. Gill p. 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Mulberry Tree

Description:: woodblock depicting a mulberry tree.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Nature & Nakedness

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Clothes (J. Cape, 1931). Engravings, plate 69. Depicts three figures, one nude, in a forest.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

New England Woods

Description:: Woodblock illustration of New England Woods for Three Poems by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy (St. Dominic’s press, 1920). Engravings, plate 39.
Date:: 1920
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Our Lady of Lourdes

Description:: Wood block for printing carved in the shape of a female. Figure is clothed in robes with a halo, holds arms out slightly from sides, and stands above a serpentine figure. Wood block is carved into separate pieces to used for inking different colors.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Que pascitur inter lilia

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p. 11 of Canticum Canticorum (Cranach Press, 1931). Gill #284, Gill Notebook II. Image of a man in a forest with a goblet. A bird flies overhead.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Sacred Heart

Description:: Woodblock with sacred heart design for Gordian Gill’s confirmation card. Had a note that there was no pull, but now that is crossed out.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Semi-Circular Device

Description:: Proof and block of an unused design for the St. Dominic"s Press, Ditchling, Sussex, 1916. Incorporates the numbers 2, 7, 3, 0, 2, 8, 2, 9, 2, 8, 3, 1, the date A.D. MDCCCCXVI, a pen, graver and printer"s dabber. D73, E28, CLC5. Physick 77.
Date:: 1916
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Shuttle and Loom

Description:: Woodblock depicting a shuttle and loom, made as letter heading for Petra Helen Gill. Lettering on block says, “PHG JM JD.”
Date:: 1925
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Spoil Bank Crucifix

Description:: Woodblock of a Christ figure on a crucifix, entitled "Spoil Bank Crucifix." Cleverdon plate 38, Gill #B-17 (notebook)
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

St. Thomas' Hands

Description:: Woodblock depicting the hands of St. Thomas. First used on title page of Work & Leisure, 1935 (Gill #31). Used many other times as well, and a variant of 102. No pull. 889, GILL579.
Date:: 1935
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

St. Thomas' Hands

Description:: Woodblock illustration of St. Thomas" Hands first used on title page of "Work & Leisure," 1935. Used many other times subsequently. Gill #31, Physick 889, 579, and variant of 102. No pull.
Date:: 1935
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Surrexit Alleluia [Easter picture 1930]

Description:: Woodblock originially used as frontispiece for “Lenten Lessons and Gospels,” produced by Rene Hague. Also used for Gill’s “In a Strange Land,” 1944 (Gill 51), p. 8, and “Essays,” 1947 (Gill 53), p. 92.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Attack

Description:: Illustration on verso of title page to the Travels and Sufferings of Father Jean de Brebeuf (ERG 297), Golden Cockerel Press, 1938. With companion blocks for title page lettering. No pulls made
Date:: 1938
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Blind Girl

Description:: Woodblock illustration for The National Institute for the blind. No pull. Gill bibl. Supplement, p 204. No pulls made.
Date:: 1939
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Careful Builder

Description:: 2 versions of the same carved text stating, “The careful builder set the bed/ in hasty green of larches.” Lettering only.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Dying Patriot

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p 136 (Ch. 6) of The Green Ship by P. Miller (Golden Cockerel Press, 1936). Gill 294, Gill Notebook III, Gill p 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Green Ship title page

Description:: Woodblock for title page (right side of double page) of The Green Ship by Patrick Miller. Golden Cockerel Press, 1936. Gill #294, Gill Notebook III, Gill p 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Martyrdom

Description:: Illustration on recto of title page to The Travels and Sufferings of Jean de Brebeuf (ERG 297). Golden Cockerel Press. Physick 973, Gill 659, no pulls made.
Date:: 1938
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Money Changers

Description:: Woodblock for illustration of The Money Changers, p 191 of The English Bible-Selections (ERG 299).
Date:: 1938
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

The Symbol of Christ Crucified

Description:: Woodblock of Christ on the cross. Proof of an illustration on page 123 or The Devil’s Devices (ERG 259) by H.D.C. Pepler, published by the Hampshire House Workshops, London. 46, D-45.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Transiliens colles

Description:: Illustration for Song of Songs (Cranach Pres, 1931), p. 9. Faber plate 61, Gill Notebook II. Depicts a nude male figure running through a landscape with two dogs.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock carved with a design showing two letter Ps back to back.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock. Reverse Gs encircle W or M. See pull.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Diagram for Tristram Shandy (curly line). For GCP Edition, Volume III: 149. Physick 624, Gill #328.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Semi-circular device created for St. Dominic’s Press with the following letters and numbers, “273028292831/ADMDCCCCXVI.” D-73, Physick 77, Cleverdon plate 11, Never used, no pull.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Small woodblock for engraving. Shows a hand with an eye on the palm. D-7.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock showing fanned out leaves; used as a tailpiece
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Troilus & Criseyde. Illustration of 9 leaves on a vine or stem. Used as a border on pp 126, 189, 249. Originally marked as EG#154.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock of hand with eye in its palm. D6. CLC #8.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock of a tree and dog for Hague & Gill. Used in Typography and p. 152 of Hamlet.
Date:: 1931
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock with lettering consisting of a single line of quotation, "Christum habemus itinesis." Clark #12, no pull.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled

Description:: Woodblock illustration for title page of Ginn’s English Bible Selections (1938). Notebook v. III, Gill bibliography p.204.
Date:: 1938
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (B)

Description:: Woodblock showing letter B.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Shows a spray of 11 rounded leaves: 7 large on right, 4 small on left. IV: 12, 67.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Shows a spray of 7 leave and flower head. I: 6, 58, 92; II: 33, 58, 149; III: 119.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Shows a girl and a bird. I: 7, 37, 59, 87, 105, 105, 145; II: 136; III: 64.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Shows a spray of 9 rounded leaves. IV: 10, 50, 62, 118, 188; IV: 98.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Shows 3 sprays, each of 6 pointed leaves. III: 71; IV: 47, 111.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Shows a spray of 13 leaves. II: 7, 79, 150.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales border. Depicts a snake with a phallic head.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Canterbury Tales border)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales showing 7 leaves and 4 curls. II: 12, 46, 172; III: 100; IV: 99.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Clothes as Workshops)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for p. 51 of “Clothes,” with the caption “Clothes as Workshops,” (J. Cape, 1931). Gill #416, Physick 716, Engravings plate 67.
Date:: 1930
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Device GG)

Description:: Woodblock with two letter G’s facing each other, inside of a circle. Notebook III, Gill 618, Gill bibliography p. 204.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Eric Gill monogram)

Description:: Small woodblock for engraving. 2nd state AEG
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (From the Books of Philip Hofer)

Description:: Woodblock for bookplate, “From the Books of Philip Hofer.” Illustration #19 in Faber, 1934.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Girl with Deer)

Description:: Woodblock for bookplate. Depicts a girl with a deer and text around the border: “Ex libris: Ananda Coomaraswamy.”
Date:: 1920
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled [Leaves]

Description:: Woodblock illustration of branches with leaves.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Reverse italic L)

Description:: Reverse italic letter L. CL #2.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Reverse L)

Description:: Reverse letter L. Has pull. CLC #1.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled [Tristram Shandy]

Description:: Diagram for Sterne’s Tristram Shandy II, 256.
Date:: 1929
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Troilus & Criseyde)

Description:: Woodblock for top half of border of p 12 of Troilus & Criseyde. Depicts a plant with 4 leaves and 2 flowers. Top portion of Physick 127.
Date:: 1927
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Troilus & Criseyde)

Description:: Woodblock for top 3” of border of p 171 (“lovers facing left”) of Troilus & Criseyde. Depicts 3 leaves of a plant. Top 3” of Physick 166.
Date:: 1927
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Untitled (Troilus & Criseyde)

Description:: Woodblock illustration for Canterbury Tales. Shows cupid looking down on lovers.
Date:: 1927
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Utopia title page

Description:: Title page for Sir Thomas More’s “Utopia,” Golden Cockerel Press. Drawn by Eric Gill, cut by Beedham. These are considered “partial” blocks.
Date:: undated
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Woman Diving

Description:: Illustration of woman diving for p. 74, Chapter 4 of “The Green Ship” by Patrick Miller, Golden Cockerel Press. Gill 294. Gill Notebook III. Gill p 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Woman Sleeping

Description:: Illustration for p. 15 Chapter 2 of “The Green Ship” by Patrick Miller, Golden Cockerel Press. Gill 294. Gill Notebook III. Gill p. 203.
Date:: 1936
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

Woodblock VII

Description:: Original hand-carved wood block depicting a man & woman in sensual embrace (similar in manner to his edition of “The Passion”). [n.d.] Rota 8-10161 (via Ewing), Skelton p. 418.
Collection:: Eric Gill Artwork Collection

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