细节
GILL, Eric. An original pencil and wash working drawing for a statue of a kneeling female figure on a plinth, her head in her hands, squared in pencil for transfer, initialled "E.G." and dated [19] 15, approximately 130 x 80mm., in window mount, overall size 550 x 430mm. [ Not in Judith Collins' Eric Gill: Sculpture (1992)]
This drawing for an unidentified sculpture, and that in the next lot, were executed during 1914 and 1915, a time of intense activity for Gill when the outbreak of the war inevitably brought commissions for memorials, most notably at Bryantspuddle in Dorset. In 1914 Gill started work on the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral (for which he had received exemption from war service) and in 1915 was asked to carve a memorial for Nurse Edith Cavell in Trafalgar Square, a commission he didn't accept.
This drawing for an unidentified sculpture, and that in the next lot, were executed during 1914 and 1915, a time of intense activity for Gill when the outbreak of the war inevitably brought commissions for memorials, most notably at Bryantspuddle in Dorset. In 1914 Gill started work on the Stations of the Cross in Westminster Cathedral (for which he had received exemption from war service) and in 1915 was asked to carve a memorial for Nurse Edith Cavell in Trafalgar Square, a commission he didn't accept.