F.L.Griggs (1976 -1938)


Originally trained as an architect but after contact with Joseph Pennell, decided to become an illustrator and designer, working with publishers, and from 1904, with the Guild of Handicraft at Chipping Campden.

01 a characteristic example of Griggs close control over textures while drawing old buildings.
 
02 "Cloth Fair" from G.Montague Ellwood, The Art of Pen Drawing Batsford London 1927.
 

03 Griggs' celebrated illustration for the titlepage of his book of drawings after Gimson's cottages, 1924.

 

 

to Griggs' illustrations to Shelley's The Sensitive Plant

to Griggs' illustrations to Highways and Byeways in Sussex, 1902