Gill (Joanna, 1910-80) 8 Designs for a Sacred Calendar, comprising: Janurary, February, March, May, June, July, August and November, watercolour over pencil, on wove paper, c.160 x 115mm., [Ditchling], [1919]; with 3 other similar watercolours by her (title-page design for The Roses of Mary, 1918; interior of a barn with figures working; coronation of the Virgin), all tipped into card mounts, together in cloth drop-back box, folio (11)

⁂ Joanna Gill was Eric Gill's youngest daughter and spent her childhood as part of the religious community at Ditchling, reflected in these drawings done at the age of 9. At this time Eric was working on his Stations of the Cross for Westminster Cathedral. Joanna later married René Hague with whom her father established a press, Hague and Gill, at the their home Pigotts in Buckinghamshire. Gill named his typeface Joanna after her, first used for An Essay on Typography published in 1931.