Ecce Tu Pulcra Es - reproduction relief print after Eric Gill

 

Eric Gill

 

1929 , printed later 

relief print 

7 9/16 x 3 9/16" platemark 

pencil initaled in unknown hand, lower left 

not stated 

pencil titled and dated 1929 (printed later), annotated "Canticum Canticorum" beneath titled; typeset in lower margin: "This wood-engraving was not published with full nudity." 

Physick 614, pg. 164 

soft, dark cream wove 

 

 

21754 

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In 1929 Eric Gill created a series of woodengravings for the book "Canticum Caticorum" ("Song of Solomon", the cycle of sacred motets by Giovanni Pierluigi), published by Cranach Press in 1931. This particular image, translated as "Behold thou art fair", number 8 in the cycle, was never published, perhaps due to its nudity. Eric Gill's block measured 5-3/4 x 2-3/4; this particular impression appears to be an enlarged reproduction, printed relief. When it was printed remains a mystery.