Feb 14, 2018
Before the dawn Robert Gibbings wood engraving from A True Tale of Love in Tonga. One for Valentine’s Day 💘 Published by Faber in 1935. #robertgibbings #woodengraving #beforethedawn #tonga #atruetaleofloveintonga
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Before the dawn Robert Gibbings wood engraving from A True Tale of Love in Tonga. One for Valentine’s Day 💘 Published by Faber in 1935. #robertgibbings #woodengraving #beforethedawn #tonga #atruetaleofloveintonga
Flamingoes Robert Gibbings Wood-engraving from The Voyage of HMS Beagle, 1956. Amongst many other accomplishments Gibbings was art director for the Penguin Illustrated Classics, a set of 10 Penguins published in 1938 in huge editions aimed at bridging the gap between 'the modern artist and the man In the street'. The man in the street reacted by not reacting and the series flopped! #Robertgibbings #flamingo #woodengraving #penguinbooks @penguincollsoc #popularart
The Story of My Heart. Gertrude Hermes. Proof wood engraving from the Richard Jefferies Classic, The Story of My Heart, one of the series of Penguin Illustrated Classics, directed by Robert Gibbings, published in 1938. #Gertrudehermes #woodengraving #penguinillustratedclassics #penguinstagram #robertgibbings
Wood engraving from ‘The wreck of the whale-ship Essex’, 1935, which was destroyed by a sperm whale in the Pacific Ocean in 1819, as described by the first mate Owen Chase. The shipwreck inspired Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby Dick. #woodengraving #illustration #rarebooks #whales #author #artist #mobydick #shipwreck
Gibbings wears the diving helmet on one of his #underwater drawing expeditions in Bermuda. The drawings were reproduced as #woodengravings in his 1938 Penguin classic ‘Blue Angels and Whales’, the book that sparked the young Sir David Attenborough’s interest in natural history. #underwaterartist #robertgibbings #firstmantodrawunderwater @robert_gibbings
Cutting Herrings. Robert Gibbings. Wood engraving from 1923 from one of the most prolific of engravers who did more than anyone to popularize wood engraving during the last century. #Robertgibbings #woodengraving #herrings #harbour #fishermen #illustration #goldencockerel