Robert Gibbings (1889 – 1958) was an Irish artist and author who was most noted for his work as a word carver and engraver and for his books on travel and natural history. Year 1889 ( MDCCCLXXXIX) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Irish people ( Irish: Muintir na hÉireann, na hÉireannaigh, na Gaeil) are a Western European Ethnic group who originate
Born in Cork, he studied at University College Cork and later at the Slade School of Art and the Central School of Art. University College Cork ( UCC) is a constituent university of the National University of Ireland, the university is located in Cork. Slade School of Fine Art is the art school of University College London, UK Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design ( St) (often abbreviated as Central Saint Martins, Saint Martins or CSM) is widely regarded
His principal writings and drawings were of his native Cork, the Thames Valley near London and parts of Polynesia which he visited several times.
Gibbings was the proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press from 1924 until 1933, when he sold it to a fellow native of Cork, Christopher Sandford. Golden Cockerel Press was a major English Private press operating between 1920 and 1961 Christopher Sandford of Eye Manor, Herefordshire (1902-1983 book designer was proprietor of the Golden Cockerel Press, a founding director of the Folio Society
Works
- Coming Down the Seine
- Sweet Thames Run Softly
- Coming down the Wye
- Trumpets from Montparnasse (1955)
- The Seventh Man
- A True Tale of Love in Tonga
- Blue Angels and Whales
- Sweet Thames Run Softly
- Till I End My Song
- Over the Reefs
- Coconut Island
- John Graham, Convict
- Lovely is the Lee (1945)
- Sweet Cork of Thee (1952)
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