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Nationality
  
English

Name
  
F. Griggs


F. L. Griggs FL Griggs 18761938 The Architecture of Dreams

Born
  
30 October 1876

Known for
  
etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator

Notable work
  
Owlpen Manor, The Almonry, Maur's Farm, Anglia Perdita

Movement
  
British Etching Revival

Awards
  
Royal Academician, Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers

Died
  
June 7, 1938, Chipping Campden, United Kingdom

Books
  
Highways and Byways in London

Similar People
  

Education
  
Slade School of Fine Art

Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs, RA, RE (30 October 1876 – 7 June 1938) was a distinguished English etcher, architectural draughtsman, illustrator, and early conservationist, associated with the late flowering of the Arts and Crafts movement in the Cotswolds. He was one of the first etchers to be elected to full membership of the Royal Academy.

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F. L. Griggs April 2013 North Hertfordshire Museum

Born in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, he worked as an illustrator for the Highways and Byways series of regional guides for the publishers, Macmillans. In 1903 he settled at Dover's House, in the market town of Chipping Campden in the Cotswolds, and went on to create one of the last significant Arts and Crafts houses at 'New Dover's House'. There he set up the Dover's House Press, where he printed late proofs of the etchings of Samuel Palmer, amongst others. He collaborated with Ernest Gimson and the Sapperton group of craftsmen in architectural and design work in the area.

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The etchings

F. L. Griggs ancientprintcom Frederik Landseer Griggs 18761938

'Fred' Griggs converted to Catholicism in 1912, and set about producing an incomparable body of etchings, 57 meticulous plates in a Romantic tradition, evoking an idealised medieval England of pastoral landscapes and architectural fantasies of ruined abbeys and buildings.

F. L. Griggs FL Griggs Owlpen Manor Tudor Manor House and Cotswold Holiday

His best known etchings include 'Owlpen Manor' (1930), dedicated to his friend, the architect Norman Jewson, 'Anglia Perdita', 'Maur's Farm', 'St Botolph's, Boston', 'The Almonry', and 'Memory of Clavering'. Collections of his etched work are held in the Ashmolean Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum, the Boston Public Library, and in major public collections worldwide.

Legacy

F. L. Griggs FL Griggs Owlpen Manor Tudor Manor House and Cotswold Holiday

Griggs was one of the finest and most respected etchers of his time. He was an influential leader of the British etching revival in the Twenties and Thirties, and "the most important etcher who followed in the Samuel Palmer tradition" (K.M. Guichard, British Etchers, 1977). He occupies a pole position in the Romantic tradition of British art: he links the world of Blake, Turner and Samuel Palmer to a younger generation of neo-Romantic artists, including Graham Sutherland, John Piper, Robin Tanner and Joseph Webb.


F. L. Griggs ancientprintcom Frederik Landseer Griggs 18761938

F. L. Griggs The Coopers Arms 1886 by F L Griggs The Coopers Arms Tilehouse

References

F. L. Griggs Wikipedia