Eric Gill

Eric Gill (22 February 1882 – 17 November 1940) was a British sculptor, engraver, typographer, and writer. He is a controversial figure, with his well-known religious views and subject matter being seen as at odds with his sexual and paraphiliac behaviour and erotic art.

Eric Gill's types include:

Gill Sans (his most famous face and lasting legacy to typography 1927–1930)
Perpetua (1926)
Perpetua Greek (1929)[6]
Golden Cockerel Press Type (for the Golden Cockerel Press; 1929)
Solus (1929),
Joanna (based on work by Granjon; 1930– 1931)
Aries (1932)
Floriated Capitals (1932)
Bunyan (1934)
Pilgrim (recut version of Bunyan; 1953)
Jubilee (also known as Cunard; 1934)

Gill Sans is Gill's most famous typeface, which was also been used in the famous queen stamp.


In 1914 he produced sculptures for the stations of the cross in Westminster Cathedral.

Whilst Gill was a deeply religious man, largely following the Roman Catholic faith, his beliefs and practices were by no means orthodox.His personal diaries describe his sexual activity in great detail including the fact that Gill sexually abused his own children, had an incestuous relationship with his sister and performed sexual acts on his dog.

One of the Gill's blasphemous drawings is a Christ having sexual relations with an undefined woman saint.


Gill was obviously aware that much of his work had been labeled indecent and erotic when he said, It seems best to draw whatever is natural and normal and trust to the good sense of people to see things in the normal manner. Gill’s Eve has become an iconic image; signed and numbered impressions are extremely scarce.

"Eve" is regarded as one of his most important works.