Lot 1721
‡ROBERT GIBBINGS (1889-1958)
TEN WOOD ENGRAVINGS
to comprise small vignettes (a bird, a duck, resting cattle, a serpent around a tree [illus.], cows by hayricks, cow by a gate, fishing boats, country landscape with a gate, a pointer, two tree studies on one sheet), each signed, the `Serpent` numbered 6.15 and inscribed To Margaret Pilkington from/ Robert Gibbings. Dec 1928`, this 13 x 9.5cm.; others smaller (10 frames)
* Margaret Pilkington OBE (1891-1974) was a noted member of the Society of Wood Engravers and exhibited there for over a decade. She had studied under Lucien Pissarro and became the Society's President from 1952-1967