[Edmund Gill [Edmund Marriner Gill], English landscape painter.] Signed Autograph ‘List of Principal Works Exhibited by E. Gill’, with covering Autograph Letter Signed to the publishers George Routledge & Sons’.

An interesting item, providing valuable biographical information. The Gills were a prominent family of English painters, all puzzingly absent from the Oxford DNB. Edmund Gill’s father was the portrait painter Edmund Ward Gill (1794–1854) and among his brothers were the painters William Ward Gill (1823–1894) and George Reynolds Gill (1827–1904). After studying at the Royal Academy he fell under the influence of David Cox. The present item relates to Gill’s entry in the 1884 eleventh edition of the Routledge reference work by Thompson Cooper, ‘Men of the Time: A Dictionary of Contemporaries’. Both items are 1p, 12mo. On the same grey paper. In good condition, both folded three times for postage. ONE: Covering letter to ‘G. Routledge & Sons’, with good bold signature ‘Edmund Gill’. He is forwarding ‘the slip Inclosed to me There is no other Information to add - except that you may like a List of the Principal works exhibited which will occupy about double the space - should you be able to spare it’. TWO: ‘List of Principal Works Exhibited by E. Gill’. Signed at foot ‘Edmund Gill’. A list of eighteen titles, with places and date of exhibition. Starting with ‘Storm on the Court St. Gowain. S. Wales - Royal Academy 1846’ to ‘The North West Coast of Cornwall - R.A. 1882’. Two items from ‘Crystal Pala. Internation Exhibitn’, three from the British Institution, and the others from the Royal Academy. Only eleven of the eighteen titles in this list are present on p.462 of the work published in 1884.