Eric Gill
English sculptor, typeface designer, and printmaker (1882-1940) · United Kingdom · On the map · Artists · Died at 58
Arthur Eric Rowton Gill was an English sculptor, letter cutter, typeface designer, and printmaker.
Busiest day 27 Oct
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![Engraving by Gill from Woodwork published by the St. Dominic Press[18]: 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/V_%26_A_Gill_1963_Plate_046_Handscrew_G-clamp_Plane.jpg/1280px-V_%26_A_Gill_1963_Plate_046_Handscrew_G-clamp_Plane.jpg)
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Although the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography describes Gill as "the greatest artist-craftsman of the twentieth century: a letter-cutter and type designer of genius", he is also a figure of considerable controversy following the revelations of his sexual abuse of two of his daughters and of his pet dog.
