Bernard Morgan Memorial - Eric Gill - 1882-1940
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Year: 1917
Medium: Hopton Wood stone
Size: 23.0 x 23.0 x 4.0 cms
Description:
The text reads, 'Pray for the soul of Bernard Morgan who gave his life at sea, Oct 9th, 1917, RIP'.
Provenance:
From the wall of the guild chapel at Ditchling.
Literature:
Dr. David Peace, Eric Gill: The Inscriptions, The Herbert Press, 1994, page 89, (338A/P), 'Six lines, massed, the last three justified to left'.
Exhibition History:
The Lost Idyll, Gillian Jason Gallery, 1989. (Later research confirms that this piece is not by Joseph Cribb, as it was described in our 1989 catalogue, but in fact by Eric Gill.)
