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Frederick Landseer Griggs
Epiphany, 1918-19
Inscribed, In festo Epiphania domini nostri / Anno salutis MCMXIX (In the Feast of Our Lord's Epiphany / In the year of salvation 1919).
Architect and printmaker Griggs designed stone war memorial crosses for cemeteries in the Cotswold Hills of Gloucestershire, a range dotted with medieval churches. The region supported a thriving Arts and Crafts movement, in which Griggs was a leading practitioner.
In 1919, Griggs presented his friends with this commemorative etching, which synthesizes his affections for Gothic design and art with a moral purpose. Griggs inscribed this idyllic scene with verse from Christmas vespers in Christian liturgy:
The King of Peace is magnified, whose power the whole earth desires. The King of Peace is magnified above all the kings of the whole earth. |